Imagine an alternate present where the space shuttle hadn’t been such a disaster and the Cold War hadn’t been sole the driver for the space program. Where the dreams of the sixties came true, and the fears of the seventies were never realised. Where the whole Earth is powered by clean energy and humanity has […]
Read more "Moon review"from NASA NASA and Google to Bring Space Exploration Down to Earth NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces. As the first in […]
Read more "..NASA and Google to Bring Space Exploration Down to Earth.."from CNN.com NASA wants permanent moon base NASA’s plans for returning people to the moon — an objective called for by President Bush in 2004 — includes establishing a permanent outpost that would be used to prepare for a manned trip to Mars. The moon base would be at either the north or south pole […]
Read more "..NASA wants permanent moon base.."Mock moon landers are set to compete for millions of dollars in prize money at next week’s Wirefly X Prize Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico, US…
Read more "..Mock lunar landers to go head to head in X Prize Cup.."NASA announced Tuesday that its new crew exploration vehicle will be named Orion.
Orion is the vehicle NASAs Constellation Program is developing to carry a new generation of explorers back to the moon and later to Mars. Orion will succeed the space shuttle as NASA’s primary vehicle for human space exploration.
Orion’s first flight with astronauts onboard is planned for no later than 2014 to the International Space Station. Its first flight to the moon is planned for no later than 2020. ..
Read more "..NASA Names New Crew Exploration Vehicle Orion.."from New Scientist SPACE Can high-tech cavemen live on the Moon? Moon caves would make good homes for astronauts and should therefore be mapped out, a space scientist argues. The Moon appears to possess long, cave-like structures called lava tubes that are similar to ones on Earth. They form when the surface of a stream […]
Read more "..Can high-tech cavemen live on the Moon?.."from SPACE.com Scientist Targets 2024 for China’s First Moon Walk China plans a manned lunar mission by 2024 that will include a walk on the moon’s surface, a top Chinese scientist was quoted as saying in a Hong Kong newspaper. The announcement by lunar program vice director Long Lehao shows long-term preparations are moving ahead […]
Read more "..Scientist Targets 2024 for China’s First Moon Walk.."“To put a human colony of four or five scientists on the moon for any extended period of time, it’s necessary to figure out how to produce the oxygen and water and propellant that might be required for simple life support, largely because it’s too darned expensive to get it all the way from Earth and stockpile it there,” says Dale Boucher, director of research and development at the Sudbury-based Northern Centre for Advanced Technology…
Read more "..Scientists work to colonize space.."from PhysOrg Rumblings on the moon could be problematic for lunar base As NASA envisions it, astronauts will return to the moon within the next decade or so. Unlike in the earlier, quick, Apollo visits, these astronauts will build a permanent base and prepare for an historic undertaking that will send explorers to Mars. As […]
Read more "Moon-quakes will make a perm. base hard?"from washingtonpost.com U.S. Planning Base on Moon To Prepare for Trip to Mars For the first time since 1972, the United States is planning to fly to the moon, but instead of a quick, Apollo-like visit, astronauts intend to build a permanent base and live there while they prepare what may be the most ambitious […]
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