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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   |
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. |
Geotimes
November 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Moon Tapes Still Missing As NASA officials continue to search for missing Apollo 11 moon landing tapes, the search has turned up some interesting leads, including some lunar data found on the other side of the globe. |
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. |
Science News
July 15, 2006 |
Science Safari: A Meteoroid Hits the Moon This NASA Web page describes observations of a recent meteoroid impact on the moon, which created a new crater. |
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. |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Water found in Moon rocks US researchers have found water in rocks from the Moon - prompting new questions about its origin. |
Popular Mechanics
January 12, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Moon-Rock Bricks Could Build Lunar Bases and Settlements One of NASA's most ambitious goals is to return to the moon and create a permanent base. Some scientists think that the materials for lunar buildings are on the moon already. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
May 19, 2009
Lindsey Pinkerton |
Further Reading: Apollo 11 in Books for Adults and Children Thirty-two options to satisfy your mind and imagination's space lust. |
Wired
May 2003
Tom McNichol |
The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system. |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2010
James Urquhart |
Volatile elements locked in moon rock Samples of a mineral present on the Moon and on Earth have been found to contain almost the same concentrations of hydrogen, chlorine and sulfur, adding weight to questions over how the Moon formed and evolved. |
Wired
Sarah Douglas |
3 Weird Things About the Moon Three small unknown facts about 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
Science News
November 12, 2005 |
Moon Zoom A link to access software developed by NASA that allows you to interactively browse three-dimensional images of the moon. |
Popular Mechanics
August 27, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
MythBusters Tackle Moon Conspiracies: Behind the Scenes Ever since man went to the moon -- and still today as America plans to go back (via DIY, NASA or the next president) -- there have been those who said we never actually made it there in the first place. |
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
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
June 2007
Ian Christe |
The Next Threat to Astronauts: Moon Dust NASA's plans for colonizing the moon by 2024 have hit a problem. Dust particles discovered by the Apollo crew can make their way into moonwalkers' lungs. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Prepare for Another Moon Shot NASA says we'll establish a permanent moon base by 2024. How will investors benefit? |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA is using the unique optical capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope for a new class of scientific observations of the Earth's Moon. |
Popular Mechanics
November 19, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Top 6 North American Meteor Showers You Don't Want to Miss A list of upcoming meteor spectacles in the sky. |
Wired
September 2005
Spencer Reiss |
One Giant Leap Tom Hanks takes Imax to the moon in his latest production Walking on the Moon 3D. |
Science News
March 17, 2001 |
TimeLine: March 14, 1931 70 Years Ago in Science News: New Welded Pipe Line Carries Water to San Diego... Age of Earth Determined as Over 2,000,000,000 Years... Moon Lacks Oxygen, Its Light Proves... |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Moon Soil, Earth Air? Apollo astronauts brought back samples of soil from the moon that contained unexpectedly high levels of nitrogen. New research is shedding light on the anomaly. |
Popular Mechanics
March 5, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
How to Land Robots on the Moon (and Keep them Alive) Getting them there is easier said than done. And once there, conditions on the moon's surface are likely to play havoc with machinery and sensors. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
August 22, 2005
Hardy Green |
After The Moon -- What? It may exaggerate the difficulties they had in readjusting to life on Earth, but Andrew Smith's "Moondust" is a spellbinding tale of what has befallen the Apollo astronauts since they walked the moon. It's fascinating for its historical detail, engaging writing, and wistful meditation on space travel. |
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. |
| 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. |
Chemistry World
August 5, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Dry Moon discovery Was there water on the Moon when it first formed? US geochemists say the distribution of chlorine isotopes in lunar rocks suggest not, or at least not as much as other recent studies have proposed |
Popular Mechanics
May 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
NASA's New Moon Robot: Dig It! The space agency plans to turn lunar dust into air and water for astronauts arriving on the moon. The safest way to do that? With Lockheed Martin's robotic digger and gatherer. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Kate Wong |
Scientific American recommends 3 books about the moon Also: Becoming Human, and Amazing Animals |
Scientific American
July 2009 |
John Rennie Recollects the Moon Landing Our editor in chief looks back on the Apollo 11 mission as well as his years with Scientific American |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
James Oberg |
Commercial Communications Satellites for the Moon NASA wants a for-profit network to support lunar missions. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2008
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Who Owns the Moon? The Case for Lunar Property Rights Can astronauts claim the moon for king and country, as in the Age of Discovery? Are corporations allowed to expropriate its natural resources, and individuals to own its real estate? |
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. |
Wired
December 2004
Andrew Chaikin |
Man vs. Machine Today, decades after the final Apollo mission, we still haven't sent a human back to the moon - or beyond it. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 20, 2009 |
A Peek at NASA's Faster Connection to the Moon One giant leap for the U.S. space agency: 100Mbps connectivity from the Earth. |
Popular Mechanics
February 27, 2008
Brian Lisi |
NASA's Concept Truck Built for 360-Degree Lunar Off-Roading NASA engineers went back to the drawing board to create a new "concept car" for the moon. The result? A six-wheeled, truck-style vehicle that someday might rove around the lunar surface more like a crab than a car. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Tiny Moon, Gigantic Geyser A tiny moon of Saturn, no larger than England, is changing researchers' notions about which celestial bodies can support geologic activity. |
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. |
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. |
Wired
November 27, 2007
Richard Morgan |
Today, Countries Battle for a Piece of the Arctic. Tomorrow? The Moon. What has gone unnoticed amid the international clamor between Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and the US is that the Arctic battle has implications that reach far beyond the top of Earth. The squabbling will be a prelude to -- and even set the tone for -- eventual sovereignty claims on the moon. |
Geotimes
December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Space Rovers still trucking... New "planetary" neighbors... Back to space... |
