News tagged with moon landings

Norway boasts world's largest carbon dioxide capture lab

Norway on Monday inaugurated what it called the world's largest laboratory for capturing carbon dioxide, a leading strategy for fighting global warming.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

From V-2 rocket to moon landing

He was a handsome, charismatic, brilliant, onetime member of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party and SS paramilitary force. He also was a hero in the United States hailed for helping to land the first man on the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit

The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight. John Glenn.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

China unveils high resolution global moon map

Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of global Moon images on Monday, Feb. 6.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

NASA questions Apollo 13 commander's sale of list

NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations that were crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 15

China's space ambitions ally glory with pragmatism

As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

NASA prepares for moon tourism

Pack your rockets. The newest national park may be on the moon.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Fla.'s Space Coast feels pain of shuttle's end

(AP) -- Workers at the Kennedy Space Center always knew the end of the shuttle program would bring hard times to Florida's Space Coast.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

JFK's 1961 speech led space exploration to new heights

Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy told a joint session of Congress that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Asia's star burns ever brighter in space

Asia's extraterrestrial ambitions have rocketed from nowhere in the 50 years since the first human space flight, with China shooting for the moon while India and Japan fuel up their own programmes.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

China to explore Mars with Russia this year

China's first Mars probe is expected to be launched in October this year in a joint operation with Russia after a two-year delay, state media reported Sunday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 10

3D Measurements of Apollo 14 Landing Site

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can we measure the size and shape of equipment and other objects on the moon using orbital images from the current Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission?

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Planning Our Phases on the Moon

As space agencies around the world gear up for a return of humans to the Moon, researchers are beginning to outline important scientific priorities. A new study at an impact crater in Canada is helping mission ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

China to launch second lunar probe: state media

China will launch its second moon orbiter next October, state media reported Friday, as it powers ahead with a space programme that has sparked concerns abroad.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

China says completes 3D moon map

China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon, in an important step towards a future lunar landing, an expert involved in the project said Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1