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Chemistry World August 2009 Richard Corfield |
One giant leap NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role |
Popular Mechanics September 2007 Thomas D. Jones |
The Lunar Base: How to Settle the Moon (and Pay for Sleepovers) A four-time Space Shuttle astronaut explains what life will be like on NASA's four-man outpost come 2020, when the anti-Apollo mission will cast off aboard a new rocket and send explorers to hazardous territory. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet |
Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars. |
Popular Mechanics December 2005 Aldrin & Noland |
Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Sandra Upson |
Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Stone |
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space |
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Aldrin & Noland |
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives. |
Wired May 2003 Tom McNichol |
The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Robert Zubrin |
How to Go to Mars--Right Now! Human exploration of Mars doesn't need to wait for advanced rockets, giant spaceships, or lunar base stations |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Michael Milstein |
Inside NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water Water is a key ingredient in the agency's plans to establishing a permanent outpost there because it can be broken down into oxygen for lunar bases and fuel for rockets. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Guterl & Heger |
Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not |
Geotimes June 2004 Harrison H. Schmitt |
Space Exploration and Development: Why Humans? George Bush's new initiative places the president squarely in support of moving civilization into the solar system and "into the cosmos." |
Scientific American March 13, 2005 Mark Alpert |
Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles. |
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon. |
AskMen.com |
Water On The Moon The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen. |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc. |
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Moon Soil, Earth Air? Apollo astronauts brought back samples of soil from the moon that contained unexpectedly high levels of nitrogen. New research is shedding light on the anomaly. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Gregory L. Matloff |
Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 |
India Joins League of Lunar Nations Last November, India reached the moon, the fifth country to do so after the United States, Russia, Japan, and China. |
Popular Mechanics June 17, 2009 Joe P. Hasler |
Do We Really Need Another Satellite Orbiting the Moon? It is a tale of two satellites, a shared destination, and two very different missions. |
Popular Mechanics March 5, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
How to Land Robots on the Moon (and Keep them Alive) Getting them there is easier said than done. And once there, conditions on the moon's surface are likely to play havoc with machinery and sensors. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Anatoly Zak |
A Russian Return to a Martian Moon Russia hopes to reignite its deep-space program with a mission to Phobos |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Rhea |
Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good. |
Popular Mechanics November 13, 2009 Jeremy Jacquot |
NASA Confirms There is Water on the Moon--But Where Did It Come From? By obtaining core samples like the ice cores collected by scientists in the Antarctic, it will be possible for scientists to study the climatic record of the moon and draw comparisons with the Earth's. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Lahey et al. |
Bubble Power Tiny bubbles imploded by sound waves can make hydrogen nuclei fuse--and may one day become a revolutionary new energy source. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Willie D. Jones |
A Fusion Thruster for Space Travel Clean, highly energetic reaction delivers a lot of drive from a drop of fuel. |
Wired November 27, 2007 Richard Morgan |
Today, Countries Battle for a Piece of the Arctic. Tomorrow? The Moon. What has gone unnoticed amid the international clamor between Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and the US is that the Arctic battle has implications that reach far beyond the top of Earth. The squabbling will be a prelude to -- and even set the tone for -- eventual sovereignty claims on the moon. |
Geotimes December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Space Rovers still trucking... New "planetary" neighbors... Back to space... |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 David Noland |
Mission to the Moon: How We'll Go Back -- and Stay This Time From ensuring a safe launch to getting the vehicle back on the ground, here's an inside look at some of the toughest challenges NASA's engineers are now confronting with the new Orion shuttle. |
Popular Mechanics April 2003 Paul Eisenstein |
Biggest Engine Ever Built It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and, having served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned moon mission, probably qualifies as the most famous rocket as well. |
Geotimes September 2003 Fred Schwab |
Manned Space Exploration: Should We Give it Up? Do the risks of sending humans into space justify the ends? Is it time to de-emphasize "astronaut science," and to concentrate instead on unmanned missions into space |
AskMen.com |
NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 David Noland |
Moon Man: Buzz Aldrin's Advice on NASA's Orion Mission Buzz Aldrin offers his thoughts on the next mission to the moon. |
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Alex Hutchinson |
The Next Atomic Age America's nuclear power plants will soon have to be replaced -- but with what? |
Chemistry World October 6, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Solar wind whips up water on moon The volcanic glasses from the moon's soil let the scientists rule out other ways that water might have been created |
Popular Mechanics January 12, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Moon-Rock Bricks Could Build Lunar Bases and Settlements One of NASA's most ambitious goals is to return to the moon and create a permanent base. Some scientists think that the materials for lunar buildings are on the moon already. |
Popular Mechanics April 10, 2006 Benjamin Chertoff |
NASA Announces New Mission to the Moon NASA uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter EELV launch vehicle as a lunar impactor in search for water ice in moon's poles. |
Popular Mechanics March 11, 2009 Tom Jones |
An Astronaut's Letter to President Obama: Six Space Policy Musts Looming decisions facing the president will make or break America's status as the world leader in space. Here is some advice for Obama on what he needs to do to keep NASA on the right trajectory. |
Wired December 2004 Brendan I. Koerner |
NASA's Germbuster A cell biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, Noonan chairs this committee charged with keeping future spacecraft from contaminating distant worlds and vice-versa. |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon. |
National Defense June 2007 Grace Jean |
U.S. Space Initiatives Fall Short on Ambition For a perspective on the nation's science and technology status, one need look no further than President Bush's initiative to send Americans back to the moon by 2015. |
Popular Mechanics October 12, 2009 Erik Sofge |
8 Experts Weigh in on the Future of Human Spaceflight It's now up to NASA to consider the findings, and offer specific recommendations to the Obama administration. |
Wired October 2001 |
Rants & Raves Tom McNichol's article "The New Red Menace" contains many errors... I'm disappointed by the tendency to invent new and complex gadgetry when simpler solutions would work... etc. |
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Ian Christe |
The Next Threat to Astronauts: Moon Dust NASA's plans for colonizing the moon by 2024 have hit a problem. Dust particles discovered by the Apollo crew can make their way into moonwalkers' lungs. |
Wired December 2004 James Cameron |
The Next Giant Leap Buzz Aldrin talks about his walk on the moon and the next step in manned space exploration. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2010 James Urquhart |
Volatile elements locked in moon rock Samples of a mineral present on the Moon and on Earth have been found to contain almost the same concentrations of hydrogen, chlorine and sulfur, adding weight to questions over how the Moon formed and evolved. |
Popular Mechanics July 2009 Erik Sofge |
6 Bright Ideas for the Future of Energy While wind turbines and solar panels are impressive green technologies, the way to really slash one's bills and environmental impact is to live in a hyperefficient house |
Wired December 2004 Andrew Chaikin |
Man vs. Machine Today, decades after the final Apollo mission, we still haven't sent a human back to the moon - or beyond it. |