Items tagged with moon

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Video of Moonwalk From 1969 Restored Friday, July 17th, 2009 - 09:04:32 - Anuradha Menon NASA on Thursday unveiled refurbished video of the first human landing on the moon, restored after it became clear that the original tapes of the... read more

Russians Landed on Moon Before Americans Saturday, July 4th, 2009 - 10:34:57 - Anuradha Menon In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans' Eagle Lander carrying astronauts towards the... read more

NASA Readies Plan B for Moon Rockets Thursday, June 25th, 2009 - 12:38:40 - Anuradha Menon NASA has a backup plan to launch crew and cargo to the moon, reduce the gap between shuttle retirement and a replacement ship's debut, and save... read more

LRO in Lunar Orbit, LCROSS Swings By Moon Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 - 09:06:46 - Anuradha Menon The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has successfully entered orbit around the moon following a nearly five-day journey. Engineers at NASA's Goddard... read more

High-Speed Hydrogen Atoms From the Moon Sunday, June 21st, 2009 - 09:56:05 - Ehud Rattner Scientists probing the outer reaches of our solar system have hit upon an unusual phenomenon much closer to home. Instruments aboard a NASA... read more

LRO, LCROSS Liftoff on Lunar Journey Friday, June 19th, 2009 - 18:15:48 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, successfully separated from the Centaur upper stage and Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or... read more

NASA's Mission to Bomb the Moon Thursday, June 18th, 2009 - 10:59:07 - Anuradha Menon NASA will tomorrow launch a spectacular mission to bomb the Moon. Their LCROSS mission will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a... read more

Japan’s Moon Probe Makes Crash Landing Friday, June 12th, 2009 - 16:27:10 - Anuradha Menon A Japanese probe ended more than a year of orbiting the moon with a controlled crash-landing on the lunar surface, officials said Thursday. The... read more

Mining the Moon Friday, June 12th, 2009 - 09:15:46 - Anuradha Menon Planetary geologists speculate that the moon’s polar craters may hold billions of tons of hydrogen, perhaps even in the form of water ice. Intriguing... read more

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