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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 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 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 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 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 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.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 James Oberg	Commercial Communications Satellites for the Moon NASA wants a for-profit network to support lunar missions.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
InternetNews August 20, 2009	A Peek at NASA's Faster Connection to the Moon One giant leap for the U.S. space agency: 100Mbps connectivity from the Earth.
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.
Geotimes June 2005 Sara Pratt	Peaks of Eternal Light on the Moon Planetary scientists have found several spots near the north pole of the moon that receive continuous sunlight during the pole's lunar summer, making them prospective locations for future solar-powered equipment, or even a lunar station.
National Defense August 2012 Eric Beidel	Giant Plug May Help Stop Mass Transit Disasters The DHS Science and Technology Directorate earlier this year successfully tested its resilient tunnel plug, a giant inflatable stopper that can be used to keep gushing water or chemical and biological agents from spreading throughout transit tunnels.
Popular Mechanics October 28, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches
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.
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.
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 William Stone	Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space
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 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 July 2008	Slideshow: Next Stop, The Moon At a field test in Washington state, NASA's lunar robots go for a spin.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Opens, NASA Sponsors $2 Million Prize X Prize has opened registration and outlined the rules for the $2 million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, which calls for teams to design and develop a vehicle to simulate trips between the moon's surface and lunar orbit.
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.
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.
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.
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2008 Matt Sullivan	Debating NASA vs. DIY Rocketeers, Lunar Real Estate and the Open-Source X Prize: My Own Private Space PODCAST Is the private sector about to overtake NASA in space?
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.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	A Team Competing For Google's Lunar XPrize May Reach Moon By 2017 SpaceIL, a small Israeli nonprofit foundation working in the country's almost non-existent space sector, announced that it plans to conduct the world's first private mission to the moon in 2017.
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?
Popular Mechanics January 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	NASA Renegades Pitch Obama Team New Post-Shuttle Plan During a morning meeting at NASA headquarters in Washington D.C. with Obama administration transition team members, a handful of advocates today pitched an idea to scrap NASA's existing post-shuttle plan.
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?
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 John McHale	Boeing to Develop New Electronic Circuits for Extreme Space Environments Boeing is part of a team that received a NASA contract to develop a reliable, cost-effective electronic technology that helps robotic and human space missions operate in environments of extreme cold and space radiation.
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 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.
AskMen.com	Water On The Moon The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen.