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9 Mar 2012, 11:30 am
. “In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA’s Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swaths of highly magnetic material that had been found in the some parts of the Moon’s crust. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 7:24 pm
” He recalled staying up late at night to watch the Apollo 11 “lunar spacewalk”, among other recollections of that era. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 12:00 am
The event, sponsored by the student organization Lunar New Year Festival, is free and open to the public. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 3:48 am
., ferry boats, lunar rovers, literary agencies, business management services, and wholesale toy stores. [read post]
26 Feb 2012, 4:00 am
But just how much would a lunar base cost? [read post]
25 Feb 2012, 7:47 am
Romney, of course, has previously been critical of fellow candidate Newt Gingrich’s call for a lunar base by 2020. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 4:22 am
The counterexample, of course, is last month’s unexpected debate about lunar bases triggered by Newt Gingrich’s speech on the topic of space on the Space Coast. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 5:54 pm
And what profit was there in creating the lunar lander or the Friendship Seven or the Gemini and Apollo series of space crafts? [read post]
19 Feb 2012, 5:33 am
Sad that so many of these people have grown old without seeing lunar colonies and Mars missions. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 2:57 am
Lunar Quest, a separate program for lunar exploration, arguably suffers a worse fate: its budget it cut from $140 million to $61.5 million, and the program will end in FY2014 after the end of the LADEE mission. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 9:01 pm
But, if we can pretend for a lunar cycle that we remain actual human beings and not just toiling attorneys at law, that may not be such a bad thing after all, eh? [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 3:47 am
Earlier this week, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich spoke out against the criticism he received from fellow candidates about his lunar base proposal, chastising Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum for calling his proposal “really stupid” and expensive. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 4:01 am
”) Others have also defended the idea of a lunar base, although perhaps not the same level of rhetoric as The American Spectator piece. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 9:26 am
Today is the 2nd last day of the Chinese Lunar New Year 15 day celebrations. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 3:37 am
While Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has been the subject of criticism and even satire for his comments about establishing a permanent lunar base (as the first step to what eventually could be statehood for a lunar settlement), the former Speaker of the House doesn’t appear to be backing down from those statements. [read post]
5 Feb 2012, 6:36 am
It can also lead to ridicule and satire, perhaps best illustrated by this skit that opened last night’s episode of “Saturday Night Live”: It would seem the idea of lunar settlements, if not striking a nerve, has at least tickled a funny bone… [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 5:04 pm
This morning we noted that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized fellow candidate Newt Gingrich’s plans for lunar bases in a letter on the Romney campaign web site, even though space policy looked to be in the rearview mirror after the Florida primary earlier this week. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 3:27 am
That lunar base idea, the Romney release argues, is the “latest in a string of expensive extraterrestrial initiatives” that would drive up government spending. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 3:50 am
A harder question to answer, though, is whether Gingrich’s space comments, including his calls for a Moon base by 2020 and even the potential for lunar statehood, more broadly helped or hurt him statewide. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 1:30 pm
By Mike Dorf In my latest Verdict column, I take seriously Newt Gingrich's idea that the U.S. ought to establish a lunar colony by the end of 2020. [read post]
