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IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science   |
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
March 2006
Jean Kumagai |
Halfway to Mars How a hardy band of researchers braved freezing nights, bad food, and high winds in the Chilean desert to test the next generation of planetary rovers. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2007
Tim Beyers |
To the Moon, Google! Google puts up a $30 million cash prize to whoever can explore 500 meters of the lunar surface and transmit high-definition video back to Earth before December 31, 2012. |
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. |
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
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
Joshua J. Romero |
Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008 |
Slideshow: Next Stop, The Moon At a field test in Washington state, NASA's lunar robots go for a spin. |
Wired
March 2004
Douglas McGray |
The Great Robot Race Unmanned aerial vehicles are for wimps. 20 driverless bots are about to get down and dirty in the Pentagon's million-dollar rumble from L.A. to Las Vegas. Start your engines. |
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. |
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. |
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
September 13, 2007
Spencer Reiss |
Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 26, 2006
Michael Arndt |
"Red" Whittaker: A Man And His Robots William "Red" Whittaker created the technology to let robots work far from the assembly line. |
PC Magazine
April 20, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
Searching for Signs of Life In a test run in Chile's Atacama Desert, a rover built by a research team has become the first robot to identify life. |
Geotimes
May 2003
Lisa M. Pinsker |
Robotic Field Geologists Take to Mars Next month, the first of two twin robotic geologists will head to the Red Planet, armed with a suite of tools for conducting geology on the harsh Martian surface. |
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
January 27, 2010
Daniel H. Wilson |
Spirit, NASA Martian Exploration Rover, Dies at 6 (Earth Years) The Spirit Rover, which explored the surface of Mars for over half a decade, discovering pivotal evidence of the past existence of water, was consigned to her final resting place. |
Geotimes
October 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Traveling on Mars Over the past nine months, Mars' twin rovers have delivered amazing photographs and data to Earth, and now the first published science findings have appeared. |
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 |
Geotimes
September 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Opportunity Reaches Martian Crater Cameras aboard NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured the vast expanse of Victoria crater. |
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. |
Geotimes
May 2005
Laura Stafford |
Roving for Martian Designs Fifth-grade students from Texas take first place at the Third Annual Mars Rover Competition. Their rover was designed to furnish Mars with plants for oxygen and food for future human settlement. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Curiosity's 1-Ton Touchdown The Mars rover will rely on dead reckoning and radar to land on the Red Planet |
Car and Driver
December 2006
Aaron Robinson |
Mars Rover. Rover and Out. After 300 million miles, NASA coaxes a few more feet from its $820 million beaters. |
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. |
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. |
Geotimes
May 2003
Golombek et al. |
Landing the Mars Exploration Rovers Deciding where on Mars to land each of the two exploration rovers has occupied more than two years of research and analysis. With the help of the planetary sciences community, mission planners have narrowed the field from hundreds to just two. |
National Defense
July 2007
Grace Jean |
Surveillance Video Receiver To Become Handheld Device The laptop computer that displays the video collected by drones and other aircraft will soon come in a handheld device that can also transmit voice communications. |
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
November 25, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
4 Wildly High-Tech Military and NASA Research Projects The Army and NASA are developing projects that will aid in understanding lunar conditions, rocket fuel development, and creating robots for space exploration |
Lucire
March 26, 2012 |
Evoking style in town and country Among our team, photographer Stephen Ciuccoli knows Land Rovers more than the rest of us, so he was the perfect man to evaluate the most talked-about SUV of the year, the Range Rover Evoque |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Stone |
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space |
Scientific American
August 2008
Philip Yam |
New Close-Ups on Mars, Courtesy of Phoenix The Mars Phoenix lander became Earth's sixth successful visitor to the surface of the Red Planet. |
Lucire
June 2, 2015 |
Range Rover Evoque: still fresh, more stylish, surprisingly capable Jack Yan samples one of Lucire's most acclaimed SUVs, in the form of the 2015 1/2 Range Rover Evoque Si4 with Black Pack, and throws more than what you might expect at it |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
NASA's Robot Winnebago to Walk & Roll on Lunar Surface What kind of ride would you want for a lunar road trip? NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing a hardy robotic vehicle that could serve as an all-purpose hauler for explorers. |
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
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Barry E. DiGregorio |
Chinese Satellite Arrives at Moon Radio tracking and control of the lunar mission is made possible through through politics and technology. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Tim Palucka |
Looking for life in the Atacama Desert A so-called "terrestrial astrobiology" venture is probing the hyper-arid Atacama Desert in Chile to test the limits of life on Earth and to develop instrumentation to search for life on Mars. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2013
Lucas Laursen |
Robot to Human: "Trust Me" Rescue robots respond to operator stress levels |
