Moon crash produces much data, little drama

Scientists said NASA's moon-smashing mission produced enough data on Friday to address questions about lunar water ice — but the crash didn't come close to meeting public expectations as a cosmic fireworks show.

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Rockets vie in simulated lunar landing contest

A privately built rocket vying for NASA prize money lifted off in the Mojave Desert and flew half of a simulated lunar lander mission Wednesday before an engine problem forced its developers to call off the attempt until next month.

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That’s one small misstep for most moon tales

- As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first human footprint on the moon, retellings of the Apollo 11 story often note that Neil Armstrong flubbed the word “a” in his famous line, “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

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What we didn’t know about the moonwalk

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Neil Armstrong moved slowly down the ladder. Getting to the moon had been a long time coming.  He was an Ohio pilot who came from the same soil as Orville and Wilbur, who ejected from a crippled jet fighter over Korea just after turning 21, who flew seven test flights in the X-15 rocket, who saved himself and a crewmate in Gemini 8, who ejected from a lunar landing trainer a split second before it crashed.

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Astronaut Alan Bean opens Smithsonian art exhibit

Alan Bean uses bits of lunar dust and tiny slices of space suit patches to bring the moon closer to people who will never have a chance to go there.

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NASA uses remote sand dunes as stand-in for moon

Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon.

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China Says Lunar Image Authentic

China's space program has defended a photo of the moon's surface taken by its lunar probe as authentic, dismissing critics who suggested it had been copied from a similar image captured by a U.S. orbiter.

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Magnetic 'elephant trunk' sucks up lunar soil

A magnetic 'leaf sucker' could collect lunar soil and keep it safely centred in the tube, preventing the dangerous dust from escaping (Illustration: B Eimer/L Taylor/University of Tennessee)

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Timetable for Moon colony announced

Like the International Space Station now, the future Moon base will be permanently occupied by rotating crews (Illustration: NASA)

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NASA today confirmed that they found what they were looking for, in the plume of dust thrown up by the lunar explosion: Definitive proof of moon water.

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If a new twist on a decades-old theory is right, conditions in the early solar system suggest the moon formed inside Mercury's orbit and migrated out until it was roped into orbit around Earth.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a series of observations immediately preceding and following the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur rocket stage and shepherding spacecraft impacts at the lunar south pole, on October 9 at 7:31 and 7:35 a.m. EDT.

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India's space agency ended an $82 million mission to map the surface of the moon after failing to restore contact with its unmanned Chandrayaan I craft.

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Can the asymmetric distribution of craters on the Moon be explained by the known distribution of near Earth asteroids that are thought to have caused them? Their answer is a cautious "no". More Articles

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Forty years ago, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon. A further five missions landed on the lunar surface over the course of the next two-and-a-half-years.

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The US space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned its first images since reaching the Moon on 23 June. The probe's two cameras returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds).

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Here is a time lapse of a total lunar eclipse. Recorded with still images. The image shakes because the moon moves during the night.

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"What do we hope to accomplish through lunar exploration?"

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Will Gau holds his glass of ruby chinon to the light and tastes. "It's strict, a little dusty, a little jagged," says the wine connoisseur. But his disappointment may not be down to bad selection or the bottle being corked but to an altogether more cosmic force: the moon.

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The full moon has been linked to crime, suicide, mental illness, disasters, accidents, birthrates, fertility, and werewolves, among other things. Some people even buy and sell stocks according to phases of the moon, a method probably as successful as many others.

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The flag is probably gone. Buzz Aldrin saw it knocked over by the rocket blast as he and Neil Armstrong left the moon 39 summers ago. Lying there in the lunar dust, unprotected from the sun's harsh ultraviolet rays, the flag's red and blue would have bleached white in no time.

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NASA recently invited college and high school students to submit artwork for a contest on the theme "Life and Work on the Moon." NASA encouraged students to form inter-disciplinary teams, so that art and humanities students could collaborate with science and engineering students, …

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"Shadow bands" have been observed travelling across the ground before and after totality - when the Moon completely covers the Sun... ...Prior to the eclipse totality, the bands are usually seen to pass over the ground in the direction in which the eclipse is travelling.

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This is a tour of the Lunar Habitat Concept

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The head of a space project team at a major Japanese construction company is enthusiastic about developing the technology to manufacture concrete on the moon for use in building a lunar base.

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Shanghai has developed a lunar rover that it hopes to be chosen for China's first moon landing in 2013, the city government announced yesterday.

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COULD it be a UFO? Not this time! Numerous readers have come forward this week to tell the Journal they have spotted UFOs in the skies above Grantham.

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The Lunar Eclipse. For a Fleeting Moment... Sanity

If you missed last nights lunar eclipse, you'll have to wait till December 2010 for the next one. We almost missed it here in Kansas City, but at the last minute this abomination of a winter acquiesced and allowed us our heavenly entertainment.

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The Year of the Rat threatens to see a build-up of international tensions, natural and air disasters, and a more turbulent stock market, soothsayers and analysts say.

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President Bush speaks about our shared vision of returning to the Moon to mine propellant to supply an low earth orbit re-supply station.

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NASA has been given a mandate to change directions from building the space station to first establishing a lunar base and then using the resources and experiences from the Moon to launch a mission to Mars.

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We are returning to the moon to mine resource to supply an orbital propellant station and change space exploration in our generation!

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President Bush speaks about our shared vision of returning to the Moon to mine propellant to supply an low earth orbit re-supply station.

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NASA has been given a mandate to change directions from building the space station to first establishing a lunar base and then using the resources and experiences from the Moon to launch a mission to Mars.

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