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Moon Village vs. Journey to Mars: Which space vision will the next president pick?
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Over the past eight years, the focus of NASA’s space vision has...
Moon Express asks FAA to review its plans for Google Lunar X Prize landing in 2017
Moon Express, the lunar exploration venture backed by Seattle tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain, says it’s asking the...
Meet NCAM, the researchers helping NASA go “to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond”
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MICHOUD, La.—Obviously, NASA's novel plans for its Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion capsule require state of the art tools and engineering. But all those strategies, machines, and flight hardware don't appear out of thin air. While much of NASA's work is built on the shoulders of giants so to speak, they also find partners to continuously perform essential research and...
J.J. Abrams’ ‘Moon Shot’ online documentary series focuses on Google Lunar X Prize
Film director/producer J.J. Abrams has been in on two of the biggest space-movie franchises ever, “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” –...
Moon stamps make a full-moon debut
Now you can moon your mail carrier … not in the scatological...
Postal Service geeks out with space stamps for Pluto, planets, the moon and ‘Star Trek’
For the first time since 1991, Pluto and the solar system’s eight bigger planets are getting their own postage stamps – thanks to a U.S. Postal Service cosmopalooza that also spotlights Earth’s moon and “Star Trek.” The Pluto stamp pays tribute to NASA’s...
Aliens, bunny-killing rovers, and a Moon base: What all is NASA “hiding”?
Screen capture of YouTube video showing "mysterious" pink object spotted by an International Space Station camera. (credit: YouTube )
Spend any time around NASA public affairs specialists, as I do, and you'll eventually get the eye roll. It comes when someone inquires about aliens or faked moon landings or all manner of other nonsense. One of...
New Horizons probe sends more amazing pics of Pluto and a tiny moon called Nix
The hits just keep on coming from NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto: This week’s stunners include views of the surface that look weirder than the terrain in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” plus a close look at Nix, one of Pluto’s five moons. During...
Moon Express wins thumbs-up from XPRIZE for multimillion-dollar lunar launch
Moon Express, the lunar exploration venture co-founded by Seattle entrepreneur Naveen Jain, has gotten the “all systems go” signal for its bid to put a robotic lander to the moon and win the Google Lunar XPRIZE. The thumbs-up comes in the form of XPRIZE’s certification of Moon Express’ launch contract with Los Angeles-based Rocket Lab USA. If all goes...