Earth’s night-light, aka the moon, is pretty awesome. The U.S. was able to land on it in 1969, plant its flag, and take a picture for the memories. That means the moon belongs to the United States, right? We talked to a space lawyer to find out. Read…
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These are the clearest views of Saturn’s moon Titan we’ve seen yet
Long live Cassini, which has delivered the clearest views of Saturn’s moon, Titan, to date.
Six infrared images of Titan have been captured by the noble Cassini spacecraft, which, after 13 years of exploration, finally (and sadly) burned up in Saturn…
A woman sued NASA to keep a vial of moon dust. But is it really from the moon?
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Bouncing across the moon’s bleak, gray surface, 12 astronauts gathered hundreds of pounds of moon rock between 1969 and 1972.
Sometimes, they lifted blocks as heavy as 25 pounds (in Earth weight) off the lunar surface. Other times, they raked the lunar floor to collect fine, meteorite-smashed soil. In total, NASA flew 842 pounds of extraterrestrial rock back to Earth. Most of it has since been sealed away in freezing vaults.
Yet, Laura Cicco, of Tennessee, is sure she has a vial of moon dust. She’s so confident, in fact, that she recently sued NASA for her right to keep this vial of purported lunar dirt before the space agency can take it away. Read more…
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Americans aren’t sold on the idea of sending astronauts back to the moon
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Interest in the final frontier isn’t going anywhere.
Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center surveyed more than 2,500 American adults, revealing that 70 percent of Americans believe it’s essential for the United States to be at the forefront of space exploration.
However, when put up against some of NASA’s other initiatives, like keeping track of our changing climate, Americans believe that human space exploration should be taking a back seat.
In fact, of the nine ways people think NASA should be utilizing its resources, anything related to physically exploring space received very little attention. Only 19 percent of those surveyed think traveling to Mars should be a “top priority” and even fewer, at 13 percent, think sending astronauts back to the moon should be a top priority. Read more…
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View More Americans aren’t sold on the idea of sending astronauts back to the moonJeff Bezos wants to build a moon colony, with or without NASA
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It looks like the billionaires’ race to colonize space will kick-off in two different directions. While SpaceX CEO Elon Musk dreams of sending people to Mars as soon as 2024, Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos believes it’s more practical to start out on the moon.
Chatting with GeekWire‘s Alan Boyle at the Space Development Conference in Los Angeles on Friday, Bezos outlined his plan to send people to the moon and eventually build a permanent settlement there.
Bezos has a pragmatic view of why we’ll need those lunar bases in the future. “The Earth is not a very good place to do heavy industry. It’s convenient for us right now, but in the not-too-distant future — I’m talking decades, maybe 100 years — it’ll start to be easier to do a lot of the things that we currently do on Earth in space, because we’ll have so much energy,” he said. Read more…
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View More Jeff Bezos wants to build a moon colony, with or without NASANASA video flies you above the moon in 4K
NASA wants to fly you to the moon in 4K.
The space agency just released a new video showing off high-resolution imagery gathered by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, tasked with exploring the moon from above.
The five-minute video sho…
Xprize is relaunching its Moon challenge without Google, but they need a new sponsor
The deadline for Google’s Lunar Xprize passed just days ago without a winner, but the lengthy 10-year competition to send a robot to the Moon’s surface had known for months that none of the five teams were ready for launch by the extended deadline of March 31, 2018. As a result, back in January, Google […]
View More Xprize is relaunching its Moon challenge without Google, but they need a new sponsorOmega takes us to the Dark Side with their new moonwatch
Omega has just announced a new version of their iconic Moonwatch, the chronograph that was worn most notably by Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon. Their new model, the Dark Side of the Moon Apollo 8, features the traditional Moonwatch design with a few unique tweaks. The has an exhibition back – you […]
View More Omega takes us to the Dark Side with their new moonwatchThe moon might get its own 4G network next year because sure why not
If a group of ambitious companies gets their way, the moon may get its own 4G network in 2019.
(Insert pun about long distance charges here.)
Vodafone, Nokia, and Audi are partnering with the organization PTScientists to bring a 4G network to t…
Mercury may be in retrograde, but this levitating moon lamp can light up your life
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It’s no wonder this lamp was such a huge Kickstarter hitLevimoon is a gorgeous, small-scale depiction of the Earth’s moon, meticulously 3D printed using some 1,440 layers. Place it near your bed, in your living room — wherever you need some interstellar inspiration. The lunar light levitates over its wood base and can even spin.
Levimoon recharges wirelessly and can levitate 24/7, so you can enjoy it day or night as mood lighting or the most awesome night light ever. Choose from warm yellow and cold white light. Read more…
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View More Mercury may be in retrograde, but this levitating moon lamp can light up your lifeThis levitating 360 camera is straight out of Tony Stark’s lab
This little levitating camera will do way more than impress your friends. With tons of built-in features like environment sensors, two-way communication and smart-home controls, the Moon by 1-Ring might just be the most useful camera ever designed. Re…
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