items tagged with Moon
Luna 10: forty-two years ago, first lunar orbiter
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-28 17:18:36
On March 31, 1966, Luna 10 was launched from the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome to the Moon at 10:48:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and, on April 3, 1966, it entered the Moon’s orbit at 18:44 UTC. It became the first human-built craft to orbit another celestial body.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-28 17:18:36
On March 31, 1966, Luna 10 was launched from the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome to the Moon at 10:48:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and, on April 3, 1966, it entered the Moon’s orbit at 18:44 UTC. It became the first human-built craft to orbit another celestial body.
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Need a school project: Build a Moonbuggy for NASA
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-20 09:45:55
NASA’s "15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race" will be launching on April 4-5, 2008, at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Race your Moonbuggy around a simulated lunar course, but watch out for those deep craters!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-20 09:45:55
NASA’s "15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race" will be launching on April 4-5, 2008, at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Race your Moonbuggy around a simulated lunar course, but watch out for those deep craters!
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Abracadabra! Whoosh! The rings of Saturn disappear
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-20 08:49:28
Is a magician making Saturn's rings disappear? Actually, we are experiencing a “plane ring crossing.". The rings are appearing edge-on to Earthlings so they look to almost disappear. Such an event makes for a good time to view Saturn from your backyard telescope.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-20 08:49:28
Is a magician making Saturn's rings disappear? Actually, we are experiencing a “plane ring crossing.". The rings are appearing edge-on to Earthlings so they look to almost disappear. Such an event makes for a good time to view Saturn from your backyard telescope.
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Rings around Rhea: Possible first time discovery
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-07 08:55:59
Scientists working with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found what appears to be a ring system around Saturn’s second largest moon, Rhea. If this tenuous ring system is verified, it will be the first time that a ring has been found around a planetary moon.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-07 08:55:59
Scientists working with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found what appears to be a ring system around Saturn’s second largest moon, Rhea. If this tenuous ring system is verified, it will be the first time that a ring has been found around a planetary moon.
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Keep On Truckin’ all the way to the Moon
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-27 21:22:43
NASA is developing the latest way to drive a truck on the lunar surface, complete with crab steering, six-wheel drive with independent steering for each wheel, active suspension, no doors or windows, and no seats, but, hopefully, with cup holders for their Tang®.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-27 21:22:43
NASA is developing the latest way to drive a truck on the lunar surface, complete with crab steering, six-wheel drive with independent steering for each wheel, active suspension, no doors or windows, and no seats, but, hopefully, with cup holders for their Tang®.
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NASA cautions U.S. space program has mighty competitor in China
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-26 08:24:34
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008, NASA administrator Dr. Michael Griffin spoke to the U.S. House of Representative's Science and Technology Committee about the advances made in the Chinese space program over the past few years—admitting that China is a major competitor of the United States.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-26 08:24:34
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008, NASA administrator Dr. Michael Griffin spoke to the U.S. House of Representative's Science and Technology Committee about the advances made in the Chinese space program over the past few years—admitting that China is a major competitor of the United States.
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Google search of Moon could result in $20 million
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-23 09:13:25
If a privately funded spacecraft can find its way to the Moon and travel about on its surface, Google will award the developers $20 million in the quest for the Google Lunar X Prize.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-23 09:13:25
If a privately funded spacecraft can find its way to the Moon and travel about on its surface, Google will award the developers $20 million in the quest for the Google Lunar X Prize.
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Photographs: February 20, 2008 total lunar eclipse
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-02-22 09:04:39
The total lunar eclipse on February 20-21, 2008 seems to have been successful. I’ve collected photographs taken by backyard and professional astronomers. Enjoy!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-02-22 09:04:39
The total lunar eclipse on February 20-21, 2008 seems to have been successful. I’ve collected photographs taken by backyard and professional astronomers. Enjoy!
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Total lunar eclipse February 20, 2008: Americas, western Europe
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-16 10:58:30
The full Moon will become colored a mesh of reddish-orange, with hints of turquoise, as it passes into the shadow of Earth after rising over the eastern horizon and after the Sun has sunk beneath the western horizon on Wednesday evening.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-16 10:58:30
The full Moon will become colored a mesh of reddish-orange, with hints of turquoise, as it passes into the shadow of Earth after rising over the eastern horizon and after the Sun has sunk beneath the western horizon on Wednesday evening.
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Venus, Jupiter, Moon: Come together early February 2008
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-26 08:41:05
During the last days of January and the first days of February the two brightest planets seen on Earth will appear close together in the dawn twilight of the southeast sky, and the waning crescent Moon will drop by, too.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-26 08:41:05
During the last days of January and the first days of February the two brightest planets seen on Earth will appear close together in the dawn twilight of the southeast sky, and the waning crescent Moon will drop by, too.
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Partial solar eclipse Feb. 7, 2008: New Zealand and SE Australia
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-22 09:45:44
Skygazers in all of New Zealand and southeastern Australia will see a partial eclipse of the Sun in the afternoon on Thursday, February 7, 2008.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-22 09:45:44
Skygazers in all of New Zealand and southeastern Australia will see a partial eclipse of the Sun in the afternoon on Thursday, February 7, 2008.
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New Ares Moon rocket likes to shake, rattle, and roll
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-19 03:50:38
NASA designers are working on a way to calm down an early design flaw in the yet-to-be-built Ares I launch vehicle that will help send U.S. astronauts to the Moon beginning in 2015 and later to Mars and other space destinations.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-19 03:50:38
NASA designers are working on a way to calm down an early design flaw in the yet-to-be-built Ares I launch vehicle that will help send U.S. astronauts to the Moon beginning in 2015 and later to Mars and other space destinations.
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GRAIL: New NASA robotic mission to explore inside of Moon
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-16 10:31:58
The NASA Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, consisting to twin orbiting spacecraft, will be launched in 2011 to explore the interior structure of the Moon.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-16 10:31:58
The NASA Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, consisting to twin orbiting spacecraft, will be launched in 2011 to explore the interior structure of the Moon.
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Forty years ago: Apollo 5 lifts off to test lunar module
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-14 08:42:14
On January 22, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 5 was launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Pad 37B on an unmanned mission around Earth to test the lunar module. Its success led directly to America’s eventual landing on the Moon.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-14 08:42:14
On January 22, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 5 was launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Pad 37B on an unmanned mission around Earth to test the lunar module. Its success led directly to America’s eventual landing on the Moon.
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Swiss give best estimate of Moon age at 62M years after solar system formed
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-04 21:41:36
A study based on tungsten isotopes has revised the age for the Moon’s formation. The Moon is thought to have been created when a giant space object hit the Earth.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-04 21:41:36
A study based on tungsten isotopes has revised the age for the Moon’s formation. The Moon is thought to have been created when a giant space object hit the Earth.
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Ursid meteor shower to be seen near North Star Saturday evening
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-21 08:33:24
The Ursids will produce some astronomical glee in the northern hemisphere the evening of Saturday, December 22, 2007, and into Sunday morning, if nighttime conditions are just right.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-21 08:33:24
The Ursids will produce some astronomical glee in the northern hemisphere the evening of Saturday, December 22, 2007, and into Sunday morning, if nighttime conditions are just right.
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Sneak preview of NASA’s new Orion spacecraft
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-14 09:37:58
A mockup of the Orion spacecraft is currently under development by NASA. When completed, Orion will carry four to six astronauts to the International Space Station, the Moon, and then onwards to Mars. They may go to other places in the solar system where astronauts have not gone before.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-14 09:37:58
A mockup of the Orion spacecraft is currently under development by NASA. When completed, Orion will carry four to six astronauts to the International Space Station, the Moon, and then onwards to Mars. They may go to other places in the solar system where astronauts have not gone before.
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Future astronauts might say, “Houston, the Altair has landed!”
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-14 08:48:22
NASA announced December 13, 2007, at the Johnson Space Center, that the new name for its 21st century lunar lander is Altair. Its official designation is Lunar Surface Access Module, or LSAM.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-14 08:48:22
NASA announced December 13, 2007, at the Johnson Space Center, that the new name for its 21st century lunar lander is Altair. Its official designation is Lunar Surface Access Module, or LSAM.
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Boeing awarded NASA contract to build Ares 1 Instrument Unit Avionics ring
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-12 17:42:32
The Boeing Company announced Wednesday, December 12, 2007, that it was awarded the NASA contract to build the Instrument Unit Avionics (IUA) ring for the Ares 1 rocket, which will launch the Orion capsule into space.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-12 17:42:32
The Boeing Company announced Wednesday, December 12, 2007, that it was awarded the NASA contract to build the Instrument Unit Avionics (IUA) ring for the Ares 1 rocket, which will launch the Orion capsule into space.
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Moon looks picture-perfect to Chinese
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-26 09:19:13
The first Chinese image of the Moon's surface from its unmanned lunar orbiting Chang’e 1 spacecraft was revealed Monday, November 26, 2007.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-26 09:19:13
The first Chinese image of the Moon's surface from its unmanned lunar orbiting Chang’e 1 spacecraft was revealed Monday, November 26, 2007.
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