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1. Contest: Win Lunar Science Swag!

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Win a bag of goodies from NLSI! I attended the NASA Lunar Science Institute's Annual Lunar Forum last week, and the wonderful people from NLSI provided a very cool bag of goodies — including ... Monday, 26 July 2010

2. Is the Moon Really a 'Been There Done That' World?

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   The Moon. Credit: NASA If there's only one thing we've learned from all the highly successful recent Moon missions – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LCROSS, Chandrayaan-1 and Kaguya — ... Monday, 26 July 2010

3. Michael Laine Will Answer Your Questions on Space Elevators

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   Artists concept of a space elevator. Credit: Caltech After our recent article featuring the concept of a lunar elevator, many of you posted questions about both lunar elevators and space elevators in ... Monday, 26 July 2010

4. Lunar Forums and Anniversaries

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   Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image of the Apollo 11 landing site. Credit: NASA I'm attending the NASA Lunar Science Institute's Lunar Forum at Ames Research Center in California, which will ... Tuesday, 20 July 2010

5. Celebrating Apollo 11

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   NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) officials joined with flight controllers to celebrate the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission in the Mission Control Center. From left foreground ... Monday, 19 July 2010

6. Developers Say Lunar Elevator Could be Built Within a Decade

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   Concept for a lunar elevator. Credit: Liftport, courtesy Michael Laine The idea of a space elevator has been around since the late 1800's, but despite big dreams and years of research, the low-cost, ... Monday, 19 July 2010

7. For the Gamers Out There: Moonbase Alpha

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Since I can't even master Mario Kart, I'll probably stay clear of NASA's new online game, Moonbase Alpha, out of fear of crashing the Moon rovers and destroying the lunar colony. But for ... Wednesday, 07 July 2010

8. All-American Salute

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular ... Thursday, 01 July 2010

9. Graphite 'Whiskers' Found in Apollo Moon Rocks

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   ... of tiny whiskers within the lunar sample. Just like the recent finding of water on the Moon, it was previously thought that any carbon present in the Apollo rocks came from terrestrial contamination from ... Thursday, 01 July 2010

10. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: June 25-27, 2010

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    ... up on a partial lunar eclipse whose beginning – or end – will be visible to most of us. Check your times carefully, because this one crosses the international date line! While you're ... Friday, 25 June 2010

11. Partial Lunar Eclipse Visible June 26, 2010

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    Wake up, SkyWatchers! A partial lunar eclipse is coming your way on June 26, 2010. While the real visible action will be best in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, observers to the east will be able to ... Thursday, 24 June 2010

12. Who Will Win the Google Lunar X PRIZE?

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Twenty-one teams are hard at work trying to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon. The GLXP folks released a video this ... Thursday, 24 June 2010

13. One Year of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: Top Ten Finds

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    Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA One year ago today, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) officially reached orbit about the Moon, and in the past 12 months has gathered more digital information ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

14. NASA Day on the Hill

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    ... the Hill in the Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building, on June 23, 2010. Pictured is Scarab, a new generation lunar rover designed to assist astronauts take rock and mineral samples and explore ... Tuesday, 22 June 2010

15. Very Clever! LRO Views Huge Lava Tube Skylight in Mare Ingenii

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    ... Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University Is this a window into the interior of the Moon, and an entrance to a potential future lunar habitat? The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken a closer ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

16. Water Could Be Widespread in Moon's Interior

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    Moon rocks from the Apollo 11 mission. Credit: NASA A new look at Moon rocks from the Apollo missions, along with a lunar meteorite show a much higher water content in the Moon's interior than ... Monday, 14 June 2010

17. Life-size Wooden Spacecraft Sculptures

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    ...  Hennessey says he wanted to "reverse the virtualization of physical things" by creating life-size reproductions of the spacecraft such as the Voyager space probe, Apollo Lunar Rover, the Hubble ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

18. Japanese Firm Designing Futuristic Space Mega-Projects

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... of solar cells would extend like a belt along the entire 11,000 km lunar equator, and laser power transmission facilities would beam a high-energy-density laser towards receiving stations on Earth. See ... Wednesday, 09 June 2010

19. Russia Needs Long-Term Space Strategy To Remain Cosmic Superpower

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... players," Baturin said. He said China had a long-term space strategy, while U.S.'s space plan was limited as President Barack Obama had scrapped the lunar exploration program and some other space development ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

20. China May Become Space Station Partner

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    ... said on Monday. He made the remarks on Monday during the ongoing Global Lunar Conference in Beijing, which is organized by the International Astronautical Federation and the Chinese Society of Astronautics. Dordain ... Tuesday, 01 June 2010