NASA’s Next Moon Probe: LADEE to Test Laser Communications
NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer – LADEE – is being prepared for its departure to the Moon. Launch date is slated for September 2013 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Va. atop a Minotaur V booster. LADEE’s mission duration is approximately 160...From a Distance!
Two spacecraft have managed to snag images of our Earth and the Moon, but from far, far away. NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) orbiter circling Mercury took the image July 19 as part of a campaign to search for natural...Mercury Orbiter to Eye the Earth, Look for Moons
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will capture images of Earth on July 19 and 20. The images on the second day will also include pictures of the Moon where all six of the Apollo landing sites will be...Neil Armstrong Rembered at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
Family, friends and those who worked along side Neil Armstrong paid tribute to the Apollo 11 commander at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday and dedicated a native Live Oak to his memory. The first human to step to the surface of another...NASA Asteroid Retrieval Mission Becomes Global Grand Challenge
NASA’s proposed asteroid identification and redirect mission proposal was elevated to “Grand Challenge” status in Washington on Tuesday by the Obama Administration. The featured theme of President Obama’s proposed 2014 NASA budget is now on par...Eight New Astronauts to Help U.S. Define Space Future
NASA has chosen four men and four women, most of them with military aviation in their wide ranging professional backgrounds, to help define the nation’s post-space shuttle era. They report to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in August to prepare...Book Review: The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy
The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy by Jim Bell; Sterling Publishing Co. Inc; New York, New York; (hard cover) $29.95; May 2013. This elegant, eye-catching book offers stunning photographs and...NASA’s Next Moon Mission Arrives at Launch Site
NASA’s next mission to the Moon has moved closer to its launch later this year. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has arrived at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. LADEE is a robotic mission that will orbit Earth’s Moon to gather...Book Review: The Little Book of Space Law
The Little Book of Space Law by Matthew J. Kleiman; ABA Book Publishing; Bolingbrook, Illinois; $19.95 (Regular)/$17.95 (American Bar Association Member); 2013. This is an excellent and very readable treatment regarding space law – the international and national laws...Space Talk
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