First of 2 NASA planned moon crashes is a hit; Scientists look for water in kicked up dustOctober 9th, 2009 NASA probe hits moon south pole looking for waterWASHINGTON — NASA has successfully bulldozed two spacecraft into the moon's south pole in a search for hidden ice, but without the promised live photos. First a 2.2-ton empty rocket hull smacked the moon's south pole at 7:31 a.m.
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.
Smackdown: NASA probes about to connect with one-two uppercuts of moon's south poleOctober 9th, 2009 NASA to moon: Get ready because here we comeWASHINGTON — Two NASA spacecraft are barreling toward the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, about to crash Friday into a lunar crater in a search for ice. "Everything is working so very well," NASA's Victoria Friedensen, a manager in NASA's exploration office, said minutes before the planned one-two smack into the moon's south pole.
World's first thermal images of Moon's dark side unveiledOctober 8th, 2009 LONDON - The world's first thermal images of the dark side of the moon have been unveiled. According to a report in the Telegraph, the pictures were captured by a specialist thermal camera as part of a NASA mission to search for the presence of water on the moon.
Moon landings were not a hoax, confirms evidence from lunar orbiterSeptember 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Supporters of the theory that NASA faked the Apollo moon landings have the tide turned against them, as a lunar orbiter has spied spacecraft and astronaut tracks on the Moon left behind almost 40 years ago. Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean set foot on the moon in November 1969, just a few months after Apollo 11 made history as the first manned moon mission.
Chandrayaan images debunk Apollo 15 conspiracy theory: ScientistSeptember 2nd, 2009 PANAJI - In a considerable downer for space conspiracy theorists, Chandrayaan-1's terrain-mapper camera has recorded images of the landing site of US spaceship Apollo 15 and tracks of its lunar rovers that were used by astronauts to travel on moon's surface nearly four decades ago, a scientist said Wednesday. Prakash Chauhan of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the images captured by the hyper-spectral camera on board Chandrayaan-1 debunked conspiracy theories that have claimed that the Apollo 15, the fourth US mission to land on the moon was a hoax.
India's Chandrayaan-1 and NASA join hands to search for water on the moonAugust 26th, 2009 LONDON - A joint collaboration between India's Chandrayaan-1 and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which are orbiting the moon, could turn up evidence for valuable lunar water. Some scientists suspect water ice, which would be a precious resource for future explorers, may be trapped in permanently shadowed craters at the moon's poles.
Chandrayaan beams moon's shadow during solar eclipseJuly 28th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 captured the shadow of the moon on the earth's surface during the July 22 total solar eclipse, an Indian space agency official said Tuesday. The images were captured by the terrain mapping camera (TMC) on board the 514-kg spacecraft, which is orbiting at 200 km above the lunar surface.
Chandrayaan sends photos of total lunar eclipseJuly 28th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 has captured the shadow of the moon on the earth's surface during the July 22 total solar eclipse, an Indian space agency official said Tuesday. The images were captured by the special terrain mapping camera (TMC) on board the spacecraft.
NASA spacecraft gets its first look at Apollo moon landing sitesJuly 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident.
Now, hear what astronauts say to each other when no one's listening!July 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Thanks to a NASA website, people around the world would now be able to hear conversations between the crew of the Apollo 11 mission, which were done when the microphone was off. As Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins flew on Apollo 11 to a lunar landing in July 1969, the world heard communications between the crew and Mission Control live as they happened.
Lunar science probe sends back moon shots less than week after launch, another orbiting moonJune 24th, 2009 NASA's new moon probe sends back moon shotsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's new lunar probe launched less than a week ago has already sent back some shots of the moon.
Water-hunting satellite to reach moon TuesdayJune 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA will take a giant step toward bringing humans back to the moon Tuesday as a new orbiting satellite arrives there to search for water. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is expected to reach the moon's orbit at 0943 (GMT).
NASA moon mission to pave way for humans' returnMay 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - US space agency NASA has said it is ready to send two missions to the moon in a launch next month that will set the course for the resumption of human lunar exploration. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) are to launch aboard a single rocket June 17.
Plasma clouds can provide early space weather warningsApril 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research has suggested that scientists can get warnings of impending ionized gas bursts, which are a potential threat to satellites and power grids, through clouds of plasma in space. Till now, the arrival of burps of hot ionized gas from the Sun, has been hard to predict, but the first images of an earthbound burst captured by two satellites simultaneously have shown that plasma clouds can give warnings 24 hours in advance that trouble is heading our way.
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