... important first step in America's human return to the moon. We have much to learn as we restart exploring ... year in low polar orbit around the moon, LROC will capture thousands of images of the lunar ...
... good health may depend on the amount of exposure they have to the tiny particles. To prepare for a return to the moon, researchers with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) are ...
NASA's Orion shuttle successor is at the heart of the Constellation plan to return to the moon. Credit: NASA.
... researcher who is helping rovers navigate on Mars is leading a new effort to help humans navigate on the moon. When NASA returns to the moon -- the space agency has set a target date ...
Before NASA astronauts rocket to Mars, they're supposed to return to the moon in a sweet new ride to test-drive everything from high-tech maps and buggies to new spacesuits and next- ...
... the highest resolution images and most comprehensive geological data set ever returned from the moon. The objective of the mission is to map the lunar surface in preparation for human missions to the ...
... NASA is not properly emphasizing safety in its design of a new spaceship and its return-to-the-moon program faces money, morale and leadership problems, an agency safety panel found Monday....
... moon -- Apollo 11 -- was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. The landings for NASA's return to the moon are likely to be even more challenging. Mission planners want to be able to set down on ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Two U.S. space agency lunar mapping instruments will be aboard Chandrayaan-1 during India's maiden moon voyage.
... Apollo program, but next-generation lunar explorers are going to need an upgrade. NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program is working on new and improved tools for NASA's return to the Moon.
US ambitions of returning to the moon by 2020 and then heading to Mars risk being grounded because of "unrealistic" funds allocated to NASA, said Senator Bill Nelson, ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken and received its first images of the Moon, kicking off the year-long mapping mission of Earth's nearest celestial neighbor.
HOUSTON, July 17 (UPI) -- The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned its first images of the Apollo moon landing sites, NASA officials said Friday.
... the current questions for the future of space exploration is whether to return to the moon, or just head to Mars.
Should we return somewhere we’ve been before? Or just strike out toward someplace ...
... lunar and
Mars missions without big increase in budget
Nasa's plans to land astronauts back on the moon by 2020 are
about to disappear into a giant black hole, according to a panel of
space experts ...
