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Popular Mechanics May 2007 Alex Hutchinson	NASA's New Moon Robot: Dig It! The space agency plans to turn lunar dust into air and water for astronauts arriving on the moon. The safest way to do that? With Lockheed Martin's robotic digger and gatherer.
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.
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 December 23, 2008 Andrew Moseman	NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond.
Geotimes November 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Moon Tapes Still Missing As NASA officials continue to search for missing Apollo 11 moon landing tapes, the search has turned up some interesting leads, including some lunar data found on the other side of the globe.
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.
Wired Sarah Douglas	3 Weird Things About the Moon Three small unknown facts about the moon.
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.
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.
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 May 26, 2009 Joe P. Hasler	Is America's Space Administration Over-the-Hill? Next-Gen NASA Forty years ago most of NASA's employees were fresh out of college. Today, less than 20 percent are under the age of 40. As the baby boomers retire, who will get astronauts back to the lunar surface?
Science News April 29, 2006	The Mysterious Smell of Moondust Here's a link to an account of Apollo astronauts describing the smell and taste of moondust, which they experienced firsthand inside their lunar landers.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2006 Tim Beyers	Prepare for Another Moon Shot NASA says we'll establish a permanent moon base by 2024. How will investors benefit?
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA is using the unique optical capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope for a new class of scientific observations of the Earth's Moon.
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Dissent Grows as Scientists Oppose NASA's New Moon Mission NASA's current plan for manned space exploration is getting dissension from planetary scientists and astronauts.
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.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Tim Beyers	Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note.
Chemistry World July 9, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Water found in Moon rocks US researchers have found water in rocks from the Moon - prompting new questions about its origin.
Popular Mechanics February 27, 2008 Brian Lisi	NASA's Concept Truck Built for 360-Degree Lunar Off-Roading NASA engineers went back to the drawing board to create a new "concept car" for the moon. The result? A six-wheeled, truck-style vehicle that someday might rove around the lunar surface more like a crab than a car.
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.
Chemistry World May 13, 2014 Patrick Walter	Star chamber sparkles with space dust Nasa has created star dust down here on Earth. The dust was produced in a lab by simulating the conditions found in the atmosphere of a red giant star.
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 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 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.
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 October 2004 Harrison H. Schmitt	Mining The Moon An Apollo astronaut argues that with its vast stores of nonpolluting nuclear fuel, our lunar neighbor holds the key to Earth's future.
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.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 James Oberg	Commercial Communications Satellites for the Moon NASA wants a for-profit network to support lunar missions.
IEEE Spectrum July 2008	Slideshow: Next Stop, The Moon At a field test in Washington state, NASA's lunar robots go for a spin.
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.
AskMen.com	Water On The Moon The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen.
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.
AskMen.com	Bombing The Moon NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up.
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 May 19, 2009 Lindsey Pinkerton	Further Reading: Apollo 11 in Books for Adults and Children Thirty-two options to satisfy your mind and imagination's space lust.
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.
AskMen.com	Water On The Moon NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water.
Popular Mechanics January 2009 Michael Milstein	Vertical Gun Range Engineer This NASA engineer can test the structure of space shuttle by simulating impact from space debris.
Geotimes November 2004 Joseph Richard Gutheinz	In Search of the Goodwill Moon Rocks: A Personal Account This senior special agent with NASA's Office of Inspector General was to locate and stop the predators who feed on the elderly by selling them bogus moon rocks, often for the victim's life savings.
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.
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.
Geotimes May 2007 Cassandra Willyard	Engineering a Lunar Challenge You don't have to take a space flight to see a moonbuggy in action -- just head to Alabama. In mid-April, high school and college students gathered at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville to race their own lunar rovers in the Great Moonbuggy Race.
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.
Popular Mechanics September 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking.
Popular Mechanics June 2009 Joe P. Hasler	17 Steps to the Moon and Back: Anatomy of a Moonshot Here are the critical events that had to go right with the Apollo 11 launch, and what would have happened had they gone wrong.
Popular Mechanics September 11, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Why NASA Should Bomb the Moon to Find Water: Analysis NASA today announced the site of a mission that aims to send an empty fuel tank into a lunar crater to assess the amount of frozen water that is kicked up by the impact.
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 September 2005 Spencer Reiss	One Giant Leap Tom Hanks takes Imax to the moon in his latest production Walking on the Moon 3D.