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01 August 2008
John Glenn Speaks Out Against Future Moon Base
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NASA's first man in space, John Glenn has said a plan to set up a Moon base to facilitate the manned exploration of interplanetary space is a very bad idea. Under the current US government direction, NASA hopes to (eventually) establish the manned outpost for future launches to Mars and beyond, thus avoiding the huge [...]
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26 June 2008
LCROSS Passes Pre-Flight Tests Before Kamakazi Mission to Find Water on Moon
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The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is a very exciting mission for lunar exploration. Since the discovery of water on Mars by Phoenix last week, focus is turning on other planetary bodies and natural satellites for the possibility they may hold a supply of water too. First stop for any manned mission will [...]
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21 December 2007
MIT Shoots For the Moon
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The Moon is a pretty popular destination these days: Google's X-Prize is already getting applicants, Kaguya and Chang'e-1 are currently snapping pictures and taking measurements, and both India and the U.S. have missions lined up to launch in the next 10 years or so. MIT announced last week that it would join in on the [...]
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06 December 2007
Odyssey Moon is the First Lunar X-Prize Entrant
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I mentioned the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize a few months ago, but now there's a bit of an update: the first team has stepped forward and announced that they'll be trying to claim it. The team is called Odyssey Moon, and it stars International Space University founder Bob Richards and Inmarsat CFO Ramin Khadem. [...]
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20 July 2007
Prototype Moon Rovers Tested in the Arctic
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The question of whether humans or robots should explore space has been decided by NASA: it'll be both. In the future, NASA anticipates that humans will work with robotic explorers to gather and analyze data more efficiently than either could do alone. This will be the eventual scenario when humans set foot on the Moon [...]