A high-definition image of the Earth rising above the Moon’s south pole, taken from Japan’s Kaguya lunar orbiter in 2007. Permanently shadowed craters near the lunar polar regions have been found to harbor water ice deposits and organic compounds. Could these organics be composed in-situ inside the bottoms of these craters? Image Credit: […]
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[youtube_video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP9P_PypnaE[/youtube_video] Video courtesy of NASA It had been a bad year for the United States. The U.S. was fighting the unpopular Vietnam War. Back on the home front, both Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated. Then, just before the end of the year NASA pulled ahead of Russia in the […]
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter sensor detects south polar temperature differences during the day (left) and at night where some areas were found to be nearly -400F below zero–colder than measured so far on Pluto. Photo Credit: NASA The first extraterrestrial mining project will be announced today as part of a new commercial space […] Graphic illustrates the planned mission of Luna 23. Use large sampling arm to drill into surface then swing the sample up to fill Earth reentry vehicle for ascent stage blastoff back to Earth. Photo Credit: Lavochkin A nearly 40-year-old mystery about a major Soviet Moon mission failure has been solved by the NASA […] |
 Next Launch Crew 2 on a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC,FL scheduled for: 23 Apr 21 at 9:49 GMT 23 Apr 21 at 5:49am Eastern 
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