News tagged with lunar
Moon Rock Turns Out to be Fake
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Sep 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never ...
India loses communication with lunar satellite (Update)
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Aug 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- India's national space agency said communications with the country's only satellite orbiting the moon snapped Saturday and that its scientists were no longer controlling the spacecraft.
Space flight panel can't fit lunar mission into NASA budget
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Aug 16, 2009 |
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When President Barack Obama named a panel to review NASA's manned space program, his aides said privately they were hoping the group would recommend scrapping NASA's troubled Ares I rocket program and finding ...
Professor says current meteor shower proves theory of calendar's origin
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stargazers are in for a unique treat tonight: the planet Earth will pass through the debris train of the Swift-Tuttle comet this evening which astronomers call the Perseid meteor shower. ...
Taking space in stride: New analysis could lead to better lunar, Mars spacesuits (w/ Video)
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has watched videos of the Apollo astronauts moving across the surface of the moon has noticed the unusual loping gait they sometimes adopted and their slow, almost graceful, movements. Now a new ...
Scientists Make Oxygen Out of Moon Rock
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Aug 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If humans ever create a lunar base, one of the biggest challenges will be figuring out how to breathe. Transporting oxygen to the moon is extremely expensive, so for the past several years ...
S.Korea first rocket launch set for August 11
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Aug 02, 2009 |
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South Korea has rescheduled its first space rocket launch from its soil to August 11 after repeatedly postponing it due to technical reasons, officials said Saturday.
Exploring the Moon, Discovering Earth
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts set out on a daring adventure to explore the Moon. They ended up discovering their own planet.
Google offers 'guided tour' of the moon
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there.
Historic 'moon issue' of Science freely available
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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The historic 30 January 1970 edition of the journal Science, featuring analysis of the first geological samples from the Moon, is now freely available to the public to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first lunar ...
Apollo 11 crew: Aldrin likes spotlight, 2 shun it
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Jul 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In the 40 years since Apollo 11, some of the key players, most notably Neil Armstrong, have steered clear of the increasingly bright glare of the moonlight cast by the historic lunar landing. Others ...
Apollo 11 moon rocks still crucial 40 years later, say researchers
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Jul 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk ...
Scientists save India's moon mission from failure
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Jul 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- India's only satellite orbiting the moon came close to failure after overheating but scientists improvised to save it and have achieved more than 90 percent of the mission's objectives, an official ...
Moon potential goldmine of natural resources
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Jul 16, 2009 |
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As the Earth's natural resources gradually dwindle, some scientists believe the moon could prove a goldmine for future generations.
Museum battles to preserve moon suits for posterity
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Jul 16, 2009 |
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They have travelled further than any fashion item on Earth, surviving a hostile environment and extremes of heat and cold on a world far from ours. But now age is catching up with NASA spacesuits.
