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26 Jul 2013, 6:29 am by Jeff Foust
That strategy would outline how NASA would perform its exploration goals, including landing humans on Mars (something explicitly included in this bill), “through a series of successive, free-standing, but complementary missions making robust utilization of cis-lunar space and employing the Space Launch System, Orion, and other capabilities. [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 12:06 pm by admin
Because Jummah prayer times shift seasonally based on Islam’s lunar calendar, however, he also asked that his scheduled break time be shifted to 1:30-2:30 p.m. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 9:17 am by Bill Marler
Sam Wood reports today on one of the largest outbreaks of suspected foodborne illness in Philadelphia – nearly 100 lawyers and law students were sickened last month after attending a banquet celebrating the Lunar New Year in Chinatown. [read post]
16 Jun 2013, 2:27 pm by Jeff Foust
The NewSpace industry is concerned about the inclusion of another items on the proposed Category XV: crewed suborbital spacecraft, which are included as part of the “man-rated sub-orbital, orbital, lunar, interplanetary or habitat” provision in the draft rules. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 3:42 pm by Jeff Foust
“They are the principle [sic] architects of the decision to cancel the American lunar spaceflight program known as Constellation,” he states. [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 4:08 am by Jeff Foust
Specifically, the draft bill would direct the NASA administrator to “not fund the development of an asteroid retrieval mission to send a robotic spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid for rendezvous, retrieval, and redirection of that asteroid to lunar orbit for exploration by astronauts. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 6:06 am
(A few months later, on April 24 cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov also lost his life when his Soyuz 1 parachute failed on reentry).But the world saw a lot of great space action in '67, including launches in the Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor programs; Russia's Venera 4 and Cosmos 167, Mariner 5, and Apollo 4.And space history rockets on.So far there is nothing on the horizon to replace the Outer Space Treaty. [read post]
14 Nov 2007, 5:49 am
The Iran penal code also stipulates that the age of criminal responsibility is 15 lunar years and offenders under this age are exempt from criminal punishment," added Mr Tatchell. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 5:45 pm by Phil Cameron
A two-man Shenzhou 6 mission followed in 2005, leading to a three-man Shenzhou 7 spaceflight in September 2008, which included China's first spacewalk by astronaut Zhai Zhigang.In 2011, China plans to launch Tiangong 1 – the first module of a new space station – from the Jiuquan space center in the Gobi desert.The country is also planning to launch its second moon orbiter, called Chang'e 2, in October to search for potential landing sites for future robotic lunar… [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 10:45 am
Heiss of High frontier has a PowerPoint from Rutger's Lunar Base Symposium last June. [read post]
14 May 2008, 11:08 pm
  You don't hear that mentioned a lot, but it is very true, I think, a kind of deep, lunar hostility you see above maybe 18,000 feet that is both thrilling but also kind of evil seeming. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 8:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
The University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory operates the HiRISE camera, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 5:54 pm by Rumpole
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]
27 Jun 2012, 4:07 am by Jeff Foust
” One op-ed that has raised concern about China’s plans is an essay in Foreign Policy by John Hickman, who worries about China’s long-term plans to eventually send humans to the Moon could lead them to claim lunar territory—perhaps the entire Moon—as their own. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 5:35 am by Jeff Foust
There are Russian instruments on a few NASA spacecraft, including the Curiosity Mars rover (DAN) and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LEND). [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 3:23 pm by Dan Pinnington
But let’s suffice it to say that odds of the settings and circumstances working out so that Message Recall could in fact pull back an errant message are about as rare as a total lunar eclipse. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 4:11 am by Jeff Foust
Recalling Romney’s comment in Thursday’s debate that he would have “fired” any executive that came to him with a multi-hundred-billion plan for a lunar base, the Foundation’s executive director, Will Watson, said, “Confronted with Mike Griffin’s plan to return to the Moon, Mitt Romney would have fired Griffin and rightly so. [read post]
9 May 2014, 12:23 pm by Jeff Foust
“I believe that where we can move forward with an overall strategy, and where our commercial partners can help us, is in the realm of a cislunar mission, or a lunar surface mission, on the way to Mars. [read post]
25 Feb 2021, 9:09 am by Jonathan Bailey
This infighting has already resulted in delays for pirated copies to come out and lower-quality releases for several games. 3: China’s Lunar New Year Films Undermined by Piracy Despite State Crackdown Finally today, Rebecca Davis at Variety reports that, despite a heavy crackdown on piracy in the country, some 35,000 suspected pirate versions of the country’s holiday TV programs are available online. [read post]