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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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Ian Christe
The Next Threat to Astronauts: Moon Dust NASA's plans for colonizing the moon by 2024 have hit a problem. Dust particles discovered by the Apollo crew can make their way into moonwalkers' lungs. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
December 14, 2009
Dan Carney
Off-Roaders Offer Tips for Getting NASA's Spirit Out of Mars Sand NASA's Mars rover, Spirit, has been stuck in Martian sand since May. Professional off-road racers weigh in on how to get the vehicle unstuck. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2007
Rand Simberg
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
James Oberg
Commercial Communications Satellites for the Moon NASA wants a for-profit network to support lunar missions. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Prachi Patel
One Team's Plan to Win the Google Lunar X Prize For the Carnegie Mellon team vying for the Google Lunar X Prize, failure to launch -- and land -- is not an option mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Erico Guizzo
Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 10, 2006
Benjamin Chertoff
NASA Announces New Mission to the Moon NASA uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter EELV launch vehicle as a lunar impactor in search for water ice in moon's poles. mark for My Articles similar articles
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt
Manuela Veloso on Robot Companions The professor of computer science and member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is turning robots from joystick-operated poles on wheels into "CoBots" -- intelligent companions that can navigate and move. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
February 17, 2009
Joe P. Hasler
Inside FIRST Robotics 2009: Robots are Now Ready to Rumble On Tuesday, high school robotics teams from around the country concluded the six-week build period ahead of next month's regional FIRST Robotics Competitions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005
John Rhea
Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2006
John McHale
Boeing to Develop New Electronic Circuits for Extreme Space Environments Boeing is part of a team that received a NASA contract to develop a reliable, cost-effective electronic technology that helps robotic and human space missions operate in environments of extreme cold and space radiation. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2006
Tim Beyers
Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2008
Joe Pappalardo
Dissent Grows as Scientists Oppose NASA's New Moon Mission NASA's current plan for manned space exploration is getting dissension from planetary scientists and astronauts. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
November 13, 2009
Jeremy Jacquot
NASA Confirms There is Water on the Moon--But Where Did It Come From? By obtaining core samples like the ice cores collected by scientists in the Antarctic, it will be possible for scientists to study the climatic record of the moon and draw comparisons with the Earth's. mark for My Articles similar articles
AskMen.com NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
Slideshow: Robots Gone Wild Creatures from across the animal kingdom offer design principles to make robots more useful, engaging, and lifelike mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
August 27, 2008
Erin McCarthy
MythBusters Tackle Moon Conspiracies: Behind the Scenes Ever since man went to the moon -- and still today as America plans to go back (via DIY, NASA or the next president) -- there have been those who said we never actually made it there in the first place. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Aldrin & Noland
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2009
Joe Pappalardo
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
January 2004
Naomi Lubick
Bush retools space program As the Mars rover Spirit prepares to drive off its platform tonight and into the martian terrain, President Bush prepared the United States to send humans to the red planet and beyond. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2005
John Keller
NASA Taps Space Power Electronics for Optoelectronic Space Components Space Power Electronics will provide power converter assembly electronic boards and laser electronic assembly electronic boards for the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) measurement investigation that will be aboard the LRO. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
David Noland
Moon Man: Buzz Aldrin's Advice on NASA's Orion Mission Buzz Aldrin offers his thoughts on the next mission to the moon. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
September 2008
Michael Milstein
Inside NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water Water is a key ingredient in the agency's plans to establishing a permanent outpost there because it can be broken down into oxygen for lunar bases and fuel for rockets. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
InternetNews
December 19, 2006
David Needle
Google Reaches Far Out For Users Google announced it signed a Space Act agreement with NASA Ames Research Center. mark for My Articles similar articles
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider
NASA's Space Station Robot Gets Legs The latest SpaceX delivery to the International Space Station, which took off on Friday from Cape Canaveral, included some unusual cargo: legs for NASA's robotic space station helper. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
December 2004
Andrew Chaikin
Man vs. Machine Today, decades after the final Apollo mission, we still haven't sent a human back to the moon - or beyond it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
December 2006
Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
September 11, 2009
Joe Pappalardo
Why NASA Should Bomb the Moon to Find Water: Analysis NASA today announced the site of a mission that aims to send an empty fuel tank into a lunar crater to assess the amount of frozen water that is kicked up by the impact. mark for My Articles similar articles
AskMen.com Water On The Moon The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
December 2004
James Cameron
The Next Giant Leap Buzz Aldrin talks about his walk on the moon and the next step in manned space exploration. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
Goldman et al.
March of the SandBots A new generation of legged robots will navigate the world's trickiest terrain mark for My Articles similar articles