Moon Dust Could Make Cheap Concrete
abcnews.go.com — Instead of Water, Sulphur Could Bind Together Moon Dust. A lunar base could be built from waterless concrete composed entirely of moon dust, according to US researchers. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will next year scout out a good landing site ahead of the 2020 mission that will put US astronauts back on the moon. (Submitted by MediaSight) More...
NASA assigned engineers to Build Lunar Robot Fleet
sfgate.com — NASA has assigned scientists and engineers at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View to develop a fleet of small robotic spacecraft to orbit the moon and sample its surface before astronauts again land there within the next 15 years. (Submitted by JibberJabber) More...
NASA's Moon orbiter: Spotting the Apollo landing sites
collectspace.com — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is now undergoing checkout as it circles the Moon. Carrying a powerful imaging system, the LRO Camera, dubbed LROC for short, is being prepared for a roster of science-gathering and sharp-shooting duties -- including the imaging of Apollo landing sites. (Submitted by collectspace) More...
NASA - Apollo Landing Sites Photographed
science.nasa.gov — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident. (Submitted by n4rky) More...
NASA - LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites
nasa.gov — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident. (Submitted by bwinebarger) More...
NASA Tests Moon Imaging Spacecraft at Goddard
nasa.gov — Every moon landing conspiracy theorist will be silenced in 2009. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, also known as LRO, will embark around February 2009. Its mission is to collect the highest resolution images and most comprehensive geological data set ever returned from the moon, most likely incuding pictures of the previous moon landing sites. (Submitted by Weezy360) More...
Lunar orbiter photographs Apollo landing sites
news.cnet.com — Forty years after the Apollo 11 voyage to the moon, NASA released photographs from the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft Friday showing five of the six Apollo landing sites. Shadows cast by the Apollo descent stages are clearly visible and in some cases, the moon walkers' paths can be seen (Submitted by KRJ35) More...
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