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6 Jun 2010, 6:27 am by Jeff Foust
Spencer, as you may recall, wrote a letter to President Obama in late April, also signed by former NASA JSC director Chris Kraft, asking for the shuttle program to be extended and that a plan be developed to begin human lunar missions by 2020. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 7:10 am by Jeff Foust
It does, though, require a report within 180 days of enactment on budget and schedule for the mission, as well as what technologies the ARM will use that can also be used for Mars “which could not be gained by lunar missions. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 10:33 am by smlangston
The development of the Global Exploration Roadmap is the second step toward achieving this goal, following the development of the ISECG Reference Architecture for Human Lunar Exploration. [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 7:56 pm
Here's the announcement:Reporters here are sometimes described as adventurous when they write for other sections.And then there's John Schwartz.In his career here, he has experienced zero-gravity twice, flown a jetpack, ridden in a prototype of a lunar truck, driven a car shaped like a cupcake, gone down into the sewers of Albuquerque, ridden out a hurricane in New Orleans in the Corps of Engineers bunker, gotten zapped with one million volts of electricity by a giant Tesla coil… [read post]
7 May 2020, 10:17 pm by Jeff Richardson
  Former Astronaut Garrett Reisman, who is a technical adviser on the show, provides a guided tour of the lunar base featured in the series in this interesting video. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 4:10 am by Jeff Foust
The key elements of that bill, as described in that letter, include: Support for extending operations of the ISS to at least 2020; One additional shuttle mission (the “Launch on Need” contingency mission for the last currently-scheduled mission), which would fly only after “successful completion of an independent safety review”; A “walk before you can run” approach to commercial crew transportation, funding additional risk reduction activity patterned after the… [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 6:52 am
The exact date seems to vary by the ethnicity and brand of Buddhism, somewhat, since the article explains that it may be the full moon of the 4th, 5th or 6th lunar month, depending on which calendar one is following. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 5:02 am by Joanne Zimolzak
  In a similar vein, a New York Times piece released just before Thanksgiving notes that residents of the Larchmont neighborhood in Norfolk, VA, are now forced to pay close attention to the lunar calendar to avoid the effects of tidal flooding that increasingly are disrupting life in their community (as well as elsewhere along the East Coast). [read post]
22 Jun 2012, 5:42 am by Jordan D. Maglich
According to the SEC, Persaud failed to disclose to investors that "his trading strategies were based on lunar cycles and the gravitational pull between Earth and the moon. [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 9:53 am by Nathan Dorn
To achieve this, a careful recalculation of lunar phases against the solar calendar had to be undertaken. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 10:05 pm by Jeff Richardson
  That didn't come this year, but we did get four new faces: Lunar displays in a circle a lunar calendar, with phases of the moon, next to a traditional Gregorian calendar. [read post]
6 Dec 2023, 2:17 pm by Anne Perry and Daniel Alvarado
[4] Lunar Resources, Inc., B-421936, Nov. 14, 2023, 2023 WL 7548222. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 6:03 am by Phil Cameron
Bush made another Kennedy-like speech announcing the ambitious Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) that was intended to return people to the moon by 2000, establish a lunar base, and then, using the space station and the moon, reach Mars by 2010. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 6:19 am by Jeff Foust
“Personally, I agree with the draft authorization act’s position on the asteroid retrieval mission and I disagree with its position on a sustained lunar presence,” a reference to other language in the draft bill that calls for a sustained human lunar presence. [read post]
3 Apr 2015, 1:19 pm
[Note: This post is an update of the one I published on Good Friday, four years ago. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 8:18 am
You have lunar spaces within you, yet you need to go to Iceland to visit them? [read post]
27 May 2021, 5:24 am
"... the space agency awards a contract to build a second spacecraft — a deal that would likely go to Bezos’ Blue Origin space flight company. [read post]
30 Nov 2007, 4:21 pm by jesse londin
Von der Dunk's "The Moon Agreement and the Prospect of Commercial Exploitation of Lunar Resources" Annals of Air and Space Law Vol. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 4:41 am by Will Baude
The presence of lunar conspiracy theories or crank claims about quantum physics doesn’t show that tools like space exploration or particle colliders lack bite; on the contrary, space exploration and particle colliders show the conspiracy theorists and cranks for what they are. [read post]