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03 September 2008
NASA Reaches Out to Design Students to Confront Lunar Dust Problem
Last year, students from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) were set one of the best coursework projects I've ever heard of. The project title was called "Design for extreme environments" and it was sponsored by NASA. By extreme environments, we are talking about the Moon, and by design, we are talking about arriving at [...]
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28 July 2008
US Signs International Deal to Collaborate on Lunar Missions
NASA has signed a landmark agreement to collaborate with emerging space-faring nations for the exploration of the Moon. This collaboration will include Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Britain and France in the aim to work with NASA developing new technologies and send a series of robotic exploratory missions to pave the way for [...]
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21 July 2008
NASA to Develop GPS-Like System for the Moon
During the second moonwalk of the Apollo 14 mission, Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell were hoping to walk to the 300 meter (1,000 feet) wide Cone Crater on the moon, not far from their landing site. However, the two astronauts were not able to find the crater's rim amid the rolling, repetitive terrain. Later analysis [...]
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13 May 2008
Lower Gravity Will Help Lunar Dust Get Deep Into Astronaut Lungs
Dusting the house might be a chore here on Earth, but when astronauts return to the Moon, they'll need to be neat freaks. Their lives might depend on it! According to researchers at the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, the health of lunar astronauts will depend on how well they can keep the fine lunar [...]
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05 May 2008
Send Your Name to the Moon
Have you ever dreamt of travelling to the Moon? Unfortunately, for the time being, this will be a privilege only for an elite few astronauts and robotic explorers. But NASA has just released news that you will have the opportunity to send your name to the Moon on board their next big Moon mission, the [...]
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18 September 2007
Google Moon Gets a Big Update
When Google Moon was released last year, it was a bit of a joke. Google Earth, but for the Moon. Zoom in far enough and the familiar lunar craters were replaced with swiss cheese. The time for silliness is over, Google Moon has gotten an update, and they're making it a serious learning tool this [...]
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