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Former astronaut Alan Bean in Seymour Saturday on 40th anniversary of second mission to the moon in 1969
Seymour :: IN :: USA | 13 days ago
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Nearly two decades before the 1986 Challenger space shuttle tragedy, Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean and two crew members, Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon, were strapped tightly into place in their space suits and on their way to the Moon, the second manned...
Tags: Moon, Alan Bean, Pete Conrad, lunar surface, moon, Earth, Skylab Mission, 40th anniversary, Connecticut Post, NASA, Seymour, Space art, Exploration of the Moon, Apollo 12, NASA Astronaut Group 3, Apollo program, Manned spacecraft
A smash show at the moon's south pole
London :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility In the pre-dawn hours Friday, while those on the West Coast still snooze, a rocket is scheduled to punch a 13-foot-deep hole in a crater at the moon's south pole that hasn't seen sunlight in billions of years...Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite,...
Tags: moon, Earth, lunar surface, Lunar Crater Observation, sensing satellite, south pole, crater observing, Nasa, Hawaii, nasa prepares
NASA to bomb the moon for water
Rel :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility South Pole, as part of the agency's search for water in space. Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission will send a Centaur rocket at twice the speed of a bullet to make a hole in the moon's surface. Scientists say the blast will be powerful...
Tags: moon, Moon, Lunar Crater Observation, NASA, lunar surface
NASA will seek water in crater at moon's south pole
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Friday that they had picked a 60-mile-wide crater near the moon's south pole as the place where they will send a rocket to punch a hole in the lunar surface in search of water...If all goes according to plan, scientists say, the giant cloud of dust sent...
Tags: moon, lunar surface
India Moon probe 'malfunctions'
Bangalore :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility India's first mission to the Moon has experienced a technical problem, India's space research officials say. A sensor of the unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft has "malfunctioned" and steps have been taken to ensure it is able to continue its work, they...
Tags: Indian Space Research Organisation, G Madhavan Nair, moon, Isro, Mooncraft, moon mission, lunar surface, star sensors, Chandrayaan, sensors failure
NASA launches mission to explore the moon
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility An orbiter will spend the next year cruising 31 miles above the lunar surface, looking for the best place to land and build Earth's first off-world colony...PM PDT, June 18, 2009 The $500-million orbiter will spend the next year cruising just 31 miles...
Tags: moon, NASA Ames, landing sites, lunar surface, Earth, water sources, scout water, Moon, Nasa
Indian Moon Impact Probe lands on moon
Mumbai :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Madhavan Nair said with excitement minutes after the moon impact probe (MIP) landed on the lunar surface Friday night. "The moon has been very favorable to us all through. We have traveled all the way to the moon," Nair told the media. The MIP has already...
Tags: lunar, space, india, mission, moon, Indian Moon Impact Probe, lunar surface, Chandrayaan, Madhavan Nair, Coimbatore
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