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Space shuttle replacement crashes in landing test
A test of the spacecraft due to replace the shuttle and take humans back to the moon has crashed after its landing parachutes failed.
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Should we put a Base on the moon? or perhaps there already is one.
"Is there an "Alien Base" on the Moon? More and more people are coming forward with stories that might prove this is true. Rumors say that there is an Alien Moon Base on the far side of the moon, the side we never see from Earth.
Did you ever wonder why the Moon landings stopped and why we have not tried to build a Moon Base? It does seem like a better and easier idea than a floating space station with no access to any raw materials or supplies? According to the NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong the aliens have a base on the Moon and told us in no uncertain terms to get off and stay off the Moon! "
"Sound far fetched? Milton Cooper, a Naval Intelligence Officer tells us that not only does the Alien Moon Base exist but the U.S. Naval Intelligence Community refers to the Alien Moon Base as "Luna," that there is a huge mining operation going on there, and that is where the aliens keep their huge mother ships while the trips to Earth are made in smaller "flying saucers". "
"LUNA: The Alien base on the far side of the Moon. It was seen and filmed by the Apollo astronauts. A base, a mining operation using very large machines, and the very large alien craft described in sighting reports as mother ships exist there." -Milton Cooper
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Moon Base Announced by NASA
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Lunar Eclipse Tonight!
A partial lunar eclipse will take place on August 16, 2008, the second of two lunar eclipses in 2008. Most of Eastern Europe and Africa, and a large portion of Western and Central Asia and India, will see the entire eclipse. South America, Eastern Asia and Australia will observe part of the event.
The partial eclipse is the second of the two lunar eclipses in 2008, with the first being a total eclipse on February 20, 2008. The next lunar eclipse will be a penumbral eclipse occurring on February 9, 2009, while the next total lunar eclipse will occur on December 21, 2010 A partial lunar eclipse will take place on August 16, 2008, the second of two lunar eclipses in 2008. Most of Eastern Europe and Afric... more -
NASA - why return to the Moon?
Throughout history, the great nations have been the ones at the forefront of the frontiers of their time. Britain became great in the 17th century through its exploration and mastery of the seas. America's greatness in the 20th century stemmed largely from its mastery of the air. For the next generations, the frontier will be space.
Other countries will explore the cosmos, whether the United States does or not. And those will be Earth's great nations in the years and centuries to come. I believe America should look to its future - and consider what that future will look like if we choose not to be a spacefaring nation. Throughout history, the great nations have been the ones at the forefront of the frontiers of their time. Britain became great in the ... more -
Water found on Saturn Moon
Earthlings might be scrambling to find liquid hydrocarbons buried in our planet, but Saturn's moon Titan has plenty to spare.
Scientists say that a dark, smooth surface feature spotted on the moon last year is definitely a lake filled primarily with liquid ethane, a simple hydrocarbon.
"This is the first observation that really pins down that Titan has a surface lake filled with liquid," said the paper's lead author, University of Arizona professor Robert Brown.
The new observations affirm that Titan is one of the likeliest places to look for life in our solar system. Some astrobiologists have speculated that life could develop in the moon's hydrocarbon lakes, although it would have to be substantially different from known life on Earth, which requires liquid water.
Titan
Mixed in solution with the ethane, the lake is also believed to contain nitrogen, methane, and a variety of other simple hydrocarbons.
The Cassini-Huygens probe determined the chemical composition of the liquid by the way it reflected light, a technique known as spectrometry that has provided most of our knowledge about other planets' atmospheric compositions.
"It was hard for us to accept the fact that the feature was so black when we first saw it," Brown said. "More than 99.9 percent of the light that reaches the lake never gets out again. For it to be that dark, the surface has to be extremely quiescent, mirror smooth. No naturally produced solid could be that smooth."
Further, the scientists saw the specific absorption signature of ethane, which absorbs light at exactly 2-micron wavelengths.
These kinds of measurements are made more difficult by the hydrocarbon haze that engulfs the moon, making it hard to actually see the Titanic ground. Cassini scientists have to take advantage of narrow observation windows. One of these occurred in December 2007, which allowed them to catch this view of the lake, Ontario Lacus. At 7,800 square miles, it's slightly larger than the Earthbound Lake Ontario
Ethane is the byproduct of a solar-energy-induced reaction that transforms atmospheric methane, aka natural gas. Scientists believe ultrafine particles of ethane fall from the atmosphere to the surface and fill the lake.
Here on earth, ethane is used to create ethylene, which is used as an all-purpose chemical precursor and is the world's most-produced organic compound.
Brown and his team will publish their results in the July 31 issue of the journal Nature. Earthlings might be scrambling to find liquid hydrocarbons buried in our planet, but Saturn's moon Titan has plenty to spare. ... more -
Total solar eclipse hits skies Friday night
This Friday, August 1, a total solar eclipse will occur as the moon passes directly between the sun and Earth for the first time in more than two years. For a few minutes, the moon will blot out the sun, casting its dark shadow over a narrow, moving strip of land and revealing the sun's corona.
Sadly, this eerie, awe-inspiring event -- known as totality -- will be visible only from remote parts of the Northern Hemisphere: Starting in northern Canada, the moon's shadow, or umbra, will glide across the Arctic into central Asia.
But that doesn't mean you can't share in the experience remotely.
NovosibirskGuide.com will broadcast the eclipse as seen from Novosibirsk, Russia. And a partial eclipse will be visible from northeastern North America, and most of Europe and Asia. If you miss out, you'll have to wait nearly a year to see the moon banish the sun in real-time. The next solar eclipse takes place on July 22, 2009, starting in India and crossing through Asia and Japan into the western Pacific Ocean. The next total eclipse visible in the U.S. will occur on August 21, 2017. This Friday, August 1, a total solar eclipse will occur as the moon passes directly between the sun and Earth for the first time in mo... more -
NASA legend Buzz Aldrin voices concerns about moon rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL - Just four years after President Bush announced his vision to send astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars, legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin is leading an effort to re-examine the whole idea -- in particular, NASA's choice of rockets for the mission.
It is the latest sign that NASA's Constellation program -- intended to replace the space shuttle after 2010 -- is in trouble.
Concerned by reports that the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule are beset by cost overruns, schedule delays and complex technical woes, Aldrin says he wants to create a panel of experts to make sure that Constellation is the right way to go.
"We need to stick with the mission but rethink some of the ways we implement it," said Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon. "It doesn't pay to stick with a bad idea."
Aldrin has won some backers, including a prominent Washington think tank and the backers of an alternate rocket design created by moonlighting NASA employees.
But the space agency insists there's no need for more study -- as do its allies on Capitol Hill. CAPE CANAVERAL - Just four years after President Bush announced his vision to send astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars, le... more -
Aliens have made contact says Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell
FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens do exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.'
He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
Chillingly, he claimed our technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as theirs and "had they been hostile", he warned "we would be been gone by now".
Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.
"I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real," Dr Mitchell said.
"It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.
"I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it's been happening quite a bit."
Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics claimed Roswell was real and similar alien visits continue to be investigated.
He told the astonished Kerrang! radio host Nick Margerrison: "This is really starting to open up. I think we're headed for real disclosure and some serious organisations are moving in that direction."
Mr Margerrison said: "I thought I'd stumbled on some sort of astronaut humour but he was absolutely serious that aliens are definitely out there and there's no debating it."
Officials from NASA, however, were quick to play the comments down.
In a statement, a spokesman said: "NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe.
'Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.' FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens do exist.... more -
Joe Gets Cosmic
Upon meeting a guy like Joe Hanson, you might think he's from outer-space. We're still running test and analyzing the data but in the meantime, here's Joe getting cosmic at space camp. Upon meeting a guy like Joe Hanson, you might think he's from outer-space. We're still running test and analyzing the data b... more
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Mysterious Northern Lights Understood
People have long marveled at the majestic and mysterious northern lights that light up the skies over the polar regions of countries like Canada and in Scandinavia. Scientists have known for years that these undulating auroras are caused by a storm of charged particles high above Earth. And although a sight to behold, the forces triggering these lights can endanger satellites and air travelers near the poles. But researchers were in the dark about just what forces acted on these so-called magnetic substorms to produce the shimmering lightshows that dazzle us—until now.
Scientists have debated for decades whether local electrical disruptions in Earth's magnetic field or far-flung happenings in the so-called magnetotail (the tapering region of the magnetic field that points away from the sun) lead to the flare-ups of these substorms and their associated auroras.
Researchers say they were able to pinpoint the source by using measurements of magnetic fields recorded by five satellites that were sent into space as part of NASA's THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) project, which is designed to track "space weather" events called substorms as they unfold. The answer: these substorms form when Earth's magnetic field lines collapse on each other, showering the upper atmosphere with captured radiation from the sun where it sparks the auroras primarily over Earth's polar regions known as the northern and southern lights (aka the aurora borealis and aurora australis, respectively).
"Charged particles from the sun blow up Earth's magnetic tail like a balloon, and then for some reason the balloon leaks," says study co-author Stephen Mende, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Edgar Mitchell interview on Kerrang about UFO discloser on Radio 23 july 2008
Hi guys,latest in Real UFO & alien discloser Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14, Moon, NASA, interview on Kerrang Radio 23 july 2008. Apolo Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell grew up in Roswell, New Mexico. His family knew the ranchers where an alien spacecraft came down in 1947. Also, being an astronaut who went to the moon, he learn from high ranking military and intelligence people that the event DID happen. He suspects the government has a back-engineering program going on, although he's not sure whether or not they've been successful. More info http://www.ufoblogger.blogspot.com Hi guys,latest in Real UFO & alien discloser Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14, Moon, NASA, interview on Kerrang Radio 23 july 2008. Apolo... more
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Get Yourself a Moonbase, Just Like A Real Villian
Discovery-News.com: Do sci-fi villains have the moonbase market cornered, or will we be living on the moon some day too? Jorge Ribas finds out when NASA's making the next giant leap for mankind. Discovery-News.com: Do sci-fi villains have the moonbase market cornered, or will we be living on the moon some day too? Jorge Ribas f... more
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Time-lapse images of the Moon
NASA has released images of the Moon taken from its Deep Impact spacecraft - some 31 million miles from Earth.
A camera on the probe was turned back towards Earth and in a time lapse sequence, captured the moon passing in front on 29 May.
The video shows a graphic, in the corner, highlighting the position of the earth at the time of the image. NASA has released images of the Moon taken from its Deep Impact spacecraft - some 31 million miles from Earth. ... more -
NASA Collects Gallons of Employee Urine
From the report: Space program contractor Hamilton Sundstrand is seeking urine from workers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as part of its work on the new Orion space capsule that eventually would take astronauts to the moon. From the report: Space program contractor Hamilton Sundstrand is seeking urine from workers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Te... more
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Mr. President (Obama) are you going to let CHINA beat us back to the Moon?
More bad news for NASA: even their administrator thinks China could beat the US to the Moon. Speaking with the BBC today, Michael Griffin shared his views about the Chinese space aspirations, pointing out that the super-state could, if they wanted to, send a manned mission to the lunar surface within a decade. NASA's return mission to the Moon is planned to launch, at the earliest, in 2020, so this news is bound to knock the wind out of the US space agency's hopes to continue where it left off in 1972…
"Certainly it is possible that if China wants to put people on the Moon, and if it wishes to do so before the United States, it certainly can. As a matter of technical capability, it absolutely can." - Dr Michael Griffin
Do we really want to let China do this?
Don't they own enough of us now?
Well, Mr. President ( Obama ) what are YOU going to do?
From what YOU said last November, you would rather put the money into education and push the program back 5 years! More bad news for NASA: even their administrator thinks China could beat the US to the Moon. Speaking with the BBC today, Michael Grif... more -
Moon property investment growing according to leading lunar organisation
Property investors fed up with the world economic downturn and the credit crunch might just like to look elsewhere - to the moon.
It is legal under international law for individuals to own moon property and according to the authors of a report on the subject the establishment of lunar property rights is necessary to provide the financial resources for future settlement on the moon. Property investors fed up with the world economic downturn and the credit crunch might just like to look elsewhere - to the moon. ... more -
Water Found on the Moon
Though the moon has many seas, scientists thought it was dry.
They were wrong.
In a study published today in Nature, researchers led by Brown University geologist Alberto Saal found evidence of water molecules in pebbles retrieved by NASA's Apollo missions.
The findings point to the existence of water deep beneath the moon's surface, transforming scientific understanding of our nearest neighbor's formation and, perhaps, our own. There may also be a more immediately practical application.
"Is there water there? That's important for lunar missions. People could get the water. They could use the hydrogen for energy," said Saal.
The pebbles were scattered by lunar volcanoes that erupted three billion years ago, when the moon was still a cooling hunk of magma cast into orbit by the collision of a Mars-sized asteroid with Earth.
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Moon's interior 'did hold water'
"US scientists have found evidence that water was held in the Moon's interior, challenging some elements of the theory of how Earth's satellite formed." "US scientists have found evidence that water was held in the Moon's interior, challenging some elements of the theory of ho... more
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Man on the Moon, Future and Past
With two currently functioning orbiters, and five more missions planned in the next year, Earth's Moon may soon have seven active probes operated by five nations, with even more coming soon. NASA's plans to return humans to the Moon by 2020 are moving steadily ahead, with some concrete prototypes and initial designs beginning to emerge. With two currently functioning orbiters, and five more missions planned in the next year, Earth's Moon may soon have seven active... more
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