NASA spacecraft bombs moon in search of waterOctober 9th, 2009 Huntington (West Virginia, US), - A NASA spacecraft bombed the South Pole of the Moon on Friday in the hope of discovering water on the lunar surface. NASA's "L-CROSS" mission involved the successful use of an unmanned rocket and a satellite.
India's own probe also found water on moon: ISROSeptember 25th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's own Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on board the country's maiden lunar craft had discovered water on the moon, a finding confirmed by US space agency NASA's probe that was also aboard Chandrayaan-1, India's top space scientist G. Madhavan Nair said here Friday.
Chandrayaan-I mission was a complete success, says ISRO chairmanSeptember 25th, 2009 BANGALORE - Terming the finding of water on the Lunar surface a 'historic' one, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair on Friday said that the Chandrayaan-I mission was a complete success. Addressing mediapersons here, Nair said: "The Chandrayaan mission performed wonderfully.
Water on moon: Scientists cry eureka!September 24th, 2009 CHENNAI - India's first lunar mission is perhaps the only space project that has raised many eyebrows. But the sensational finding of water on moon has vindicated Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) officials' faith in the Rs.386-crore mission.
India's Chandrayaan first to find water on MoonSeptember 24th, 2009 LONDON - Data from Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar mission, has revealed the presence of large quantities of water on the surface of the Moon, a discovery that is a significant boost for India in its space race against China. ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) lost control of Chandrayaan-1 last month, and aborted the mission ahead of schedule, but not before M3 and the other instruments had beamed data back to Earth.
Not heat alone, radiation too crippled India's maiden moon mission, says Madhavan NairSeptember 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Madhavan Nair has said that heat alone was not the culprit as India's maiden moon mission was called off much before its scheduled lifecycle recently. A combination of factors including radiation, caused calling off of the mission.
Space scientists laud India's moon mission data despite setbackSeptember 7th, 2009 BANGALORE - Top international space scientists Monday lauded India's maiden lunar mission for the excellent quality of the data sent by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, a senior space agency official said. "About 50 scientists from Europe, America and India met here to review the data received from Chandrayaan during its 10-month tryst with the moon and expressed happiness at the excellent quality of its pictures, graphs and imagery," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) director S.
ISRO formally calls off India's first moon missionAugust 31st, 2009 PANAJI - Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has formally called off Chandrayaan-1, India's first moon mission, after it lost contact with the craft. ink with the Chandrayaan-1 craft broke down early on Saturday.
India's first moon mission Chandrayaan-I "definitely over", says project director(Lead: Chandrayaan-I)August 29th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's ambitious moon mission -- Chandrayaan-I -- came to an abrupt end on Saturday after losing radio with the spacecraft. "The mission is definitely over.
Neil Armstrong: moon dayJuly 20th, 2009 Let's remember and celebrate the great day, yes July 20 is the moon-day. Forty years back in this day Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had a little moon walking on the surface of moon.
India has no plans for manned moon mission, says ministerJuly 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Though the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has expressed its intent to send a manned moon mission by 2015, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan Thursday told parliament that India has no such plans. In reply to a question on whether India proposes to send a man to the moon, Chavan said: "No sir."
The minister, however, informed the Rajya Sabha that "India is planning for a follow-on mission Chandrayaan-2, which has an orbitor and lander which land on moon (sic) and a rover which moves on the surface of the moon to probe its surface".
NASA's lunar mission successfully enters Moon orbitJune 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon after a four and a half day journey from the Earth. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m.
NASA starts back to moonJune 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA launched its dual moon mission Thursday that will pave the way for humans to return to the moon. The Atlas V rocket launch lifted off at 05:32 p.m., just 20 minutes after planned, from NASA's Cape Canaveral in Florida.
With space shuttle launch on hold, NASA unmanned moon rocket aims for Thursday liftoffJune 17th, 2009 NASA aims for unmanned moon rocket launch ThursdayWASHINGTON — NASA plans to launch an unmanned rocket to the moon Thursday, the first such mission in a decade. The space agency announced plans for the Cape Canaveral launch Wednesday after deciding to postpone a space shuttle mission because of a hydrogen gas leak.
India's manned space mission will have IAF menMay 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - When Indias first manned mission to space takes off, possibly in 2017, it will have Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel on board. Let me promise you one thing, if there is a (Indian) man on moon (read space), it will be from the Indian Air Force, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major told reporters here.
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