HOUSTON, June 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency is planning to open its moon rock vault and allow reporters a chance to conduct interviews with NASA moon rock scientists.
SPACE.com readers discuss the impact of the first moon rock samples returned to Earth by Apollo 11 astronauts.
A lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 ...
... out how to breathe. Transporting oxygen to the moon is extremely expensive, so for the past several years NASA has been looking into other possibilities. One idea is extracting oxygen from moon rock.
A purported moon rock given to the Dutch government to commemorate the first manned lunar landing in 1969 has turned out to be only a chunk of petrified wood.
... ) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never been ...
Attention, countries of the world: Do you know where your moon rocks are?
Decades after the Apollo astronauts brought the first Moon rocks back to Earth, they are still providing scientists with new secrets.
... the average concentration in some craters corresponds to ten grams of ice in each kilogram of moon rock.
However the researchers say that instead of being water ice, hydrogen may be present in the ...
A 4.2-billion-year-old moon rock supports a theory that the moon has a molten iron core that created a magnetic field, scientists say.
... astronauts returned from the moon 40 years ago, they brought back souvenirs in the form of moon rocks to be used for scientific analysis, and one of the chief questions was whether there was water to ...
HOUSTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- NASA says it will honor the late President John F. Kennedy with an Ambassador of Exploration award for his vision and leadership in landing a man on the moon.
... have ever been seen before."
Andesite is an igneous rock common on Earth in areas where colliding ... called brachinites, plot below Earth-Moon rocks and are nearly coincident with meteorites from 4 ...
... plate tectonics over the eons, the researchers used data from Apollo moon rocks, impact records from the moon, Mars and Mercury, and previous theoretical studies to build three-dimensional computer ...
Neil Armstrong was supposed to be asleep. The moonwalking was done. The moon rocks were stowed away. His ship was ... 's ascent module would blast off the Moon, something no ship had ever attempted before ...
