Why go back to the Moon?
On September 12, 1962, then US president John F Kennedy informed the public of his plan to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
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News tagged with south pole station
Buzz Aldrin gets visit from NASA after polar evacuation
Buzz Aldrin had an unexpected bedside visit from NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman on Saturday as he continued to recover in a New Zealand hospital from his medical evacuation from the South Pole.
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2016
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China to build moon station in 'about 10 years'
Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official.
Space Exploration
Apr 24, 2019
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South Pole medical evacuation flight launched
Officials with the National Science Foundation (NSF) have launched a medical evacuation flight to NSF's scientific station at the geographic South Pole.
Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2016
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Glacier melting destroys important climate data archive
As part of the Ice Memory initiative, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) researchers, with colleagues from the University of Fribourg and Ca' Foscari University of Venice as well as the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 26, 2024
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Discovery of high geothermal heat at South Pole
Scientists have discovered an area near the South Pole where the base of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting unexpectedly quickly. Using radar to look through three km of ice, the team found that some of the ice – covering ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2018
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Queqiao: The bridge between Earth and the far side of the moon
China's Chang'e-4 probe marked the first soft-landing of a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon, which always faces away from Earth. To communicate with ground stations, Chang'e-4 relies on Queqiao, a relay communication ...
Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2021
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China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, expand space station, bring on foreign partners
China's burgeoning space program plans to place astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand the country's orbiting space station, officials said Monday.
Space Exploration
May 29, 2023
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India locates lander lost on final approach to moon
The lander module from India's moon mission was located on the lunar surface on Sunday, one day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts are underway to try to establish contact with it, the head of the nation's ...
Space Exploration
Sep 8, 2019
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Research team is first to observe new equatorial wind patterns in Antarctica
A CIRES-led team has uncovered a critical connection between winds at Earth's equator and atmospheric waves 6,000 miles away at the South Pole. The team has found, for the first time, evidence of a Quasi-Biennial Oscillation ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2020
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