Dead Spacecraft Not So Dead After All
A pair of NASA spacecraft that were supposed to be dead a year ago are instead flying to the Moon for a breakthrough mission in lunar…
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LCROSS Lunar Impact Uncovered More Than Just Moon Water
Nearly a year after announcing the discovery of water molecules on the moon, scientists have revealed new data uncovered by NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing…
Read the article →NASA Launches LCROSS Lunar Impactor
NASA successfully launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, Thursday on a mission to search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater…
Read the article →NASA Moon Work Design Contest
Talented engineering students who have ideas on how future explorers might live on the moon could find themselves working at NASA as paid interns. The 2010…
Read the article →See the Harvest Moon This Weekend
This weekend’s full Moon has a special name – the Harvest Moon. It’s the full moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox (Sept. 22). In earlier…
Read the article →Water Molecules Discovered on the Moon
NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater…
Read the article →LRO Spacecraft Gets First Look at Apollo Landing Sites
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions’ lunar module descent…
Read the article →LRO Spacecraft Sends First Lunar Images
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras — a low resolution…
Read the article →Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: July 7, 2009
A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on July 7, 2009, the second of four lunar eclipses in 2009. This eclipse will only enter the southern…
Read the article →NASA Returning to the Moon
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will…
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