Category Archives: Moon

Student MoonKAM Looks Homeward

Source NASA – This image of the far side of the lunar surface, with Earth in the background, was taken by the MoonKAM system onboard the Ebb spacecraft as part…

Dark Side of the Moon Video…No it is not Pink Floyd

NASA Spacecraft Returns First Video from Far Side Of The Moon WASHINGTON — A camera aboard one of NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned…

Newt Gingrich, Advocate of Space, Moon base, but NASA?

Lofty goals such as manned moon base by 2020, but are they real? Editorial – With the election campaign in full swing Newt Gingrich has recently been stumping Florida and…

Space Launch System (SLS) Configurations

NASA SLS Rocket facts and specifications

SLS rocket will be the largest rocket since the Apollo Saturn V. NASA issued a report NASA’s Space Launch System and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle persuent to Section 309 of the…

Second GRAIL Spacecraft Enters Lunar Orbit

NASA’S Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Reunite In Lunar Orbit PASADENA, Calif. — The second of NASA’s two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has successfully completed its planned main engine…

NASA SLS rocket

Will NASA SLS Rocket survive when ARES did not?

  SLS and former Constellation (Ares) programs are flawed in same fundamental way. NASA recently announced development of a new heavy lift rocket. The pictures of this new rocket look…

First Grail Spacecraft Enters Moon Orbit

First Of NASA’S Two Grail Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Moon PASADENA, Calif. — The first of two NASA spacecraft to study the moon in unprecedented detail has entered lunar orbit….

LRO Spacecraft Gets Its First Look at Apollo Landing Sites

    WASHINGTON — 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…