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16 Jan 2021, 6:19 am
If you want to know why NASA chose lunar orbit rendezvous as the strategy to land on the Moon, we can delve into the details, and update you on Buzz Aldrin's doctoral paper at MIT on orbital mechanics. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 8:45 am by Daniel Gardner
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6 Jan 2021, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The central “Gloria in Excelsis Tower” is 676 feet above sea level, making its top the highest point in the District of Columbia. 215 stained glass windows are set into the walls, including the “Space Window” on the south aisle of the Cathedral that contains a 7-gram piece of lunar rock from the Apollo 11 astronauts. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 9:03 pm by Elle Rothermich
But the United States and seven other nations recently agreed on a policy shift: No one owns the entire Moon, though governments and private actors can own natural lunar resources. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 7:25 am by Almudena Azcárate Ortega
The Artemis Program seeks to return humankind to the moon by 2024 to explore the lunar surface to a greater extent than ever before. [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But NASA was worried Boeing would protest the contract award, potentially holding it up for months at a time when the space agency was trying to meet a White House mandate to get astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024. in February, Doug Loverro, then the head of NASA’s human exploration directorate, called Jim Chilton, the senior vice president of Boeing’s space and launch division, to explain the company was going to lose the contract and to inquire whether it would file a… [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 3:21 am by Steve Lubet
Or the Torah sages and Imams who make their fine calibrations according to the lunar calendar. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 4:00 am by Josh Blackman
During a lunar eclipse, the "umbra" refers to the darkest part of the shadow formed when the Earth orbits between the sun and the moon. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 7:49 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“We are really curious to see if the water that is bound up in Bennu’s hydrated minerals has signatures that are similar to water on Earth,” Daniella DellaGiustina, an OSIRIS-REx scientist who works at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, told me. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 5:38 pm by Tom Smith
The country was already 10 days into Chunyun — the Lunar New Year travel season that is also the largest annual human migration on the planet — when government officials finally confirmed human-to-human transmission of the as-yet-unnamed virus on January 20.The city at the centre of the outbreak, Wuhan in Hubei province, went into lockdown three days later. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 6:28 am by Eric Lung
Specifically, NASA is asking for bids from anyone willing to finance their own lunar expedition to collect roughly 500 grams of lunar rock and soil samples that NASA will then buy for US$15,000 to US$25,000 in total per Moon contract. [read post]
20 Jul 2020, 8:01 am
 This country produced Armstrong and Aldrin and Kranz and Bales and Garman and ten thousand other men and women who made the lunar landings possible. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 3:51 pm by Josh Blackman
During a lunar eclipse, the "umbra" refers to the darkest part of the shadow formed when the Earth orbits between the sun and the moon. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 9:02 pm by Trang (Mae) Nguyen
This made Vietnam wary of developments in Wuhan, especially as the Lunar New Year triggered waves of cross-border travel by migrant workers and tourists. [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]
28 Apr 2020, 4:16 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
USGS: “For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, in collaboration with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute. [read post]
26 Apr 2020, 10:39 am by Kevin LaCroix
In the latest securities suit related to the coronavirus outbreak, a plaintiff shareholder has filed a U.S. securities class action lawsuit against a Chinese real estate firm whose American Depositary Shares (ADSs) are listed on the NYSE, based on allegations that the company’s January 2020 IPO offering documents failed to disclose the impact of the outbreak on the company’s residential real estate operations in China. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 3:31 am
Weng was convicted last year of setting a fire that killed his parents and four relatives during the Lunar New Year’s Eve holiday in 2016.Taiwan's anti-death penalty community immediately expressed righteous indignation at the execution. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 4:41 pm
COVID-19 has again exposed the power of the space, which marks the confines of the legalization of politics, the judicialization of political contests around fundamental issues of morals, ethics, social norms, and international relations. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 8:06 am by Elliot Setzer
During that time, millions began traveling for Lunar New Year celebrations and more than 3,000 people became infected. [read post]