NASA Plans Permanent Moon Base
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The agency envisions a base at one of the lunar poles, to take advantage of the near-constant sunlight.
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The European spacecraft, SMART-1, is set to establish a standard orbit around the moon on Monday evening after a thirteen month journey towards earth&#39;s satellite.
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NASA's proposed 2024 moon base will be a steppingstone to Mars, but it may also be a mining outpost. The moon is an abundant source of helium-3, a potent fuel for next-generation nuclear reactors. Trouble is, China, India and Russia have their eyes on it too. By John Lasker.
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A sophisticated autopilot system that could play a vital role in missions to the moon or Mars will be tested this week during a $100 million demonstration 500 miles above Earth.
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NASA unveiled plans today to set up a small and ultimately self-sustaining settlement of astronauts on the South Pole of the moon sometime around 2020, the first step in an ambitious plan to resume manned exploration of the solar system.
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On a day of stunning news including moonbase plans and new orbital photos, the space agency's keeping something big in reserve. In Gear Factor.
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WASHINGTON -- NASA on Thursday gave a multibillion dollar contract to build a manned lunar spaceship to Lockheed Martin Corp., the aerospace leader that usually builds unmanned rockets.
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If you woke up tomorrow morning and found yourself on the moon, what would you do? NASA has just released a list of 181 good ideas.
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The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and  NASA have agreed to cooperate on the development of a lunar spacecraft intended  as the first shot in a series of robotic probes paving the way for future human  exploration missions, according to an NRO official.
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PASADENA - Northrop Grumman Space Technology has been selected to help NASA design a nuclear-powered spacecraft to orbit and explore three moons of Jupiter that may have oceans beneath their icy surfaces.
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As US President George W. Bush prepared to step onto the stage at NASA headquarters Jan. 14 to issue a call for returning to the Moon and venturing on to Mars, a robotic rover dubbed Spirit was already preparing
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A panel of scientists strongly endorsed NASA's plans to return to the moon, saying in a report Tuesday that lunar exploration will open the way toward broader studies of the Earth and solar system.
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The European Space Agency's chief scientist sets out his vision for a DNA library on the Moon in case of emergency.
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A device developed in Boulder has been selected by NASA to fly aboard a $400 million lunar-mapping mission set for launch in 2008.
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Why, if Mars is so fascinating, does NASA now have a fixation on the Moon?
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The space agency says it has added new lunar imagery to Google's Moon Web site.
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America&#39;s new vision to regain a foothold on the moon and launch humans to Mars will require revolutionary technologies and a national tolerance for risk, danger and failure, NASA&#39;s chief administrator said yesterday.