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Scientific American
March 13, 2005
Mark Alpert |
Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles.   |
Popular Mechanics
December 23, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008
Michael Milstein |
Inside NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water Water is a key ingredient in the agency's plans to establishing a permanent outpost there because it can be broken down into oxygen for lunar bases and fuel for rockets. |
Popular Mechanics
April 10, 2006
Benjamin Chertoff |
NASA Announces New Mission to the Moon NASA uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter EELV launch vehicle as a lunar impactor in search for water ice in moon's poles. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Sweet |
Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars. |
| AskMen.com |
NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
India Joins League of Lunar Nations Last November, India reached the moon, the fifth country to do so after the United States, Russia, Japan, and China. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
Thomas D. Jones |
The Lunar Base: How to Settle the Moon (and Pay for Sleepovers) A four-time Space Shuttle astronaut explains what life will be like on NASA's four-man outpost come 2020, when the anti-Apollo mission will cast off aboard a new rocket and send explorers to hazardous territory. |
Chemistry World
August 2009
Richard Corfield |
One giant leap NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role |
Reason
December 2002
Jesse Walker |
The Race to Sell the Moon After years of inattention, the moon will soon be deluged with mechanical visitors from Earth. In June 2003 a California company, TransOrbital, intends to launch the first private mission to the moon. |
Popular Mechanics
June 17, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Do We Really Need Another Satellite Orbiting the Moon? It is a tale of two satellites, a shared destination, and two very different missions. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Stone |
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Dissent Grows as Scientists Oppose NASA's New Moon Mission NASA's current plan for manned space exploration is getting dissension from planetary scientists and astronauts. |
Popular Mechanics
September 11, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Why NASA Should Bomb the Moon to Find Water: Analysis NASA today announced the site of a mission that aims to send an empty fuel tank into a lunar crater to assess the amount of frozen water that is kicked up by the impact. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2004
Harrison H. Schmitt |
Mining The Moon An Apollo astronaut argues that with its vast stores of nonpolluting nuclear fuel, our lunar neighbor holds the key to Earth's future. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2005
Aldrin & Noland |
Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap. |
Geotimes
July 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon. |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
Geotimes
December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Space Rovers still trucking... New "planetary" neighbors... Back to space... |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Aldrin & Noland |
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Anatoly Zak |
A Russian Return to a Martian Moon Russia hopes to reignite its deep-space program with a mission to Phobos |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2007
Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon. |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2009
Jon Cartwright |
NASA data point to icy moon Scientists operating NASA's LCROSS (lunar crater observation and sensing satellite) mission, part of which impacted the moon on live television last month, say that shadowy lunar craters almost certainly contain water ice. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005
John Rhea |
Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
| AskMen.com |
Water On The Moon The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen. |
Popular Mechanics
November 13, 2009
Jeremy Jacquot |
NASA Confirms There is Water on the Moon--But Where Did It Come From? By obtaining core samples like the ice cores collected by scientists in the Antarctic, it will be possible for scientists to study the climatic record of the moon and draw comparisons with the Earth's. |
Wired
December 2001
Evan Ratliff |
Blastnost! The once proud Soviet missile fleet has set its sights on the deep-discount launch business... |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
David Noland |
Mission to the Moon: How We'll Go Back -- and Stay This Time From ensuring a safe launch to getting the vehicle back on the ground, here's an inside look at some of the toughest challenges NASA's engineers are now confronting with the new Orion shuttle. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Joshua J. Romero |
Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Barry E. DiGregorio |
Chinese Satellite Arrives at Moon Radio tracking and control of the lunar mission is made possible through through politics and technology. |
Popular Mechanics
May 26, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Is America's Space Administration Over-the-Hill? Next-Gen NASA Forty years ago most of NASA's employees were fresh out of college. Today, less than 20 percent are under the age of 40. As the baby boomers retire, who will get astronauts back to the lunar surface? |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
A Team Competing For Google's Lunar XPrize May Reach Moon By 2017 SpaceIL, a small Israeli nonprofit foundation working in the country's almost non-existent space sector, announced that it plans to conduct the world's first private mission to the moon in 2017. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
James Oberg |
Could China Get to Mars First? Maybe -- if it adopts a less top-down approach |
| AskMen.com |
Bombing The Moon NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
David Noland |
Moon Man: Buzz Aldrin's Advice on NASA's Orion Mission Buzz Aldrin offers his thoughts on the next mission to the moon. |
Popular Mechanics
September 9, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Robert Zubrin |
How to Go to Mars--Right Now! Human exploration of Mars doesn't need to wait for advanced rockets, giant spaceships, or lunar base stations |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2007
John McHale |
Manned Space Missions, International Space Station, Get Increases in 2008 NASA Budget Request Officials at NASA are looking for increased funding for the International Space Station, manned space systems and other programs that fulfill President Bush's goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade. |
| AskMen.com |
Water On The Moon NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water. |
Popular Mechanics
March 4, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
International Space Dominance: 7 Nations Launching the Next Space Race Here is a look at the capabilities of the top -- and most-talked-about -- space-faring nations in what may be a new world order. The race is on for space dominance. |
Popular Mechanics
October 12, 2009
Erik Sofge |
8 Experts Weigh in on the Future of Human Spaceflight It's now up to NASA to consider the findings, and offer specific recommendations to the Obama administration. |
Popular Mechanics
October 28, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches |
Wired
December 2004
James Cameron |
The Next Giant Leap Buzz Aldrin talks about his walk on the moon and the next step in manned space exploration. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2005
John McHale |
The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Guterl & Heger |
Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not |
Popular Mechanics
March 11, 2009
Tom Jones |
An Astronaut's Letter to President Obama: Six Space Policy Musts Looming decisions facing the president will make or break America's status as the world leader in space. Here is some advice for Obama on what he needs to do to keep NASA on the right trajectory. |
Chemistry World
August 2007
Richard Corfield |
Makeshift to Mars The red planet has claimed many a plucky spacecraft. How NASA's latest attempt hopes to overcome the odds with a different approach. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Harrison H. Schmitt |
Space Exploration and Development: Why Humans? George Bush's new initiative places the president squarely in support of moving civilization into the solar system and "into the cosmos." |
