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NASA’s Annual Great Moonbuggy Race

NASA’s Annual Great  Moonbuggy Race

NASA’s 15th annual Great Moonbuggy Race is scheduled for April, 2008. Each year, college and high school students design and drive two-person lunar vehicles across a half-mile course of simulated lunar terrain with various obstacles, such as craters and rocks. ...

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NASA to Test Lunar Habitat

NASA to Test Lunar Habitat

NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are about to test an inflatable habitat in Antarctica starting January 2008. Its new architecture is supposedly strong enough to withstand the conditions on the moon; to test that, Antarctica’s frigid, harsh, isolated ...

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NASA’s Next Launch Vehicle Envisioned

NASA’s Next Launch Vehicle Envisioned

Although the next big space telescope is not scheduled for launch before 2013, NASA scientists and engineers are already planning the launch vehicles that will be able to carry even larger telescopes into high orbit and eventually help humanity create ...

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NASA Reveals Prototype Moon Base

NASA Reveals Prototype Moon Base

As NASA is planning the return to the moon in around 2020, plans are on the way to develop a habitat that will allow continues human presence on its surface. The base camp planed by NASA will have to be ...

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Aluna Moon Clock

Aluna Moon Clock

We know of sand clocks, water clocks, atomic clocks and sun clocks but how about a Moon Clock? The British designer Laura Williams created Aluna – a proposal for the world’s first tidal powered Moon Clock. The proposed gigantic sculpture ...

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