News tagged with moon landers
'Look Ma, No Parachute!' Lunar Lander Floats on Electric-blue Jets
How do you fly on a world with no atmosphere? Wings won't work and neither do propellers. And don't even try that parachute!
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Shooting for the moon -- to mine it
Most people don't take it literally when they're told to shoot for the moon - but thinking small isn't Naveen Jain's way. The 52-year-old Internet entrepreneur is a co-founder of Moon Express Inc., one of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Four Out of Six Apollos
(PhysOrg.com) -- Their names are now part of exploration history - Sea of Tranquility, Ocean of Storms, Frau Mauro, Hadley Rille, Descartes and Taurus-Littrow. They are the sites on the lunar surface visited ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 24, 2008 |
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Fly us to the Moon... south pole to be precise
(PhysOrg.com) -- The south polar region of the Moon, with dark craters and high ridges, is a world away from the relatively smooth terrain visited by Apollo astronauts four decades ago. This rugged moonscape ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2010 |
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Looking at the volatile side of the Moon
Four decades after the first Moon landing, our only natural satellite remains a fascinating enigma. Specialists from Europe and the US have been looking at ESA’s proposed Lunar Lander mission to find ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Rockets vie in simulated lunar landing contest
(AP) -- A privately built rocket vying for NASA prize money lifted off in the Mojave Desert and flew half of a simulated lunar lander mission Wednesday before an engine problem forced its developers to call ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Water on Moon is bad news for China's lunar telescope
The discovery of water on the Moon could affect a telescope that will be installed on China's first lunar lander, scheduled in 2013, a Chinese astronomer was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Russian craft embarks on voyage to Mars moon (Update)
A Russian probe on Wednesday set off on a three year return mission to Mars that aims to bring the first sample of a Martian moon back to Earth and re-establish Moscow as a power in planetary exploration. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 08, 2011 |
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NASA may delay 2020 moon launch
NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are quietly being revised and are in danger of slipping past 2020.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Russia to try again for Phobos-Grunt?
Russia says "eisho odin ras"* for its Mars moon lander mission, according to Roscomos chief Vladimir Popovkin.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 01, 2012 |
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