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NASA seeks concepts for commercial lunar lander instruments by Jeff Foust Spacenews.com November 1, 2016 http://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Moon_Express_MX-1.jpg Moon Express will provide $500,000 each for up to three instruments NASA may select for flight on the company's lunar lander...

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Was the Moon born in a head-on collision? The high-speed crash that scientists think formed the Moon may have been less a side-swipe and more a head-on, Belinda Smith reports. by Belinda Smith Cosmosmagazine.com January 29, 2016 https://cosmos-magazine.imgix.net/file/spina/photo/2945/290116_MoonSma...

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Scientists explain why moon rocks contain fewer volatiles than Earth's by Phys.org November 9, 2015 http://cdn.phys.org/newman/csz/news/800/2014/moon.png This is a composite image of the lunar nearside taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009, note the presence of dark areas of maria ...

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Moon-forming crash sent Earth into a spin: study Simulations show a collision strong enough to tilt our young planet almost on its side can explain how our moon ended up where it is today. by Belinda Smith Cosmosmagazine.com Novemebr 01, 2016 https://cosmos-magazine.imgix.net/file/spina/photo/8382/...

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Research helps explain formation of ringed crater on the moon Phys.org October 27, 2016 http://cdn.phys.org/newman/csz/news/800/2016/1-researchhelp.jpg Free-air gravitational anomalies and shaded topographic relief of the moon's 930-km-diameterOrientale impact basin. Red corresponds to mass excesse...

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Reaching For The Moon: Indian Space Startup Aims For Global Prize by Divyanshu Dutta Roy Ndtv.com October 31, 2016 https://i.gadgets360cdn.com/large/Team_Indus_Rover__1477901195888.jpeg Team Indus is sending a rover to the moon to win the coveted Google Lunar XPRIZE. BENGALURU: By this time next ye...

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Why The Moon Should Never Be Terraformed by Bruce Dorminey Forbes.com July 27, 2016 http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/00291423029836155a00660b9d0a3a1b?s=400&d=mm&r=g Bruce Dorminey Although a growing number of commercial and scientific concerns have big plans for the Moon, our achingly desolate ...

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Interview: Initiating a New Space Age with TeamIndus by Press Release Spacewatchme.com October 23, 2016 http://s32.iamwire.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/214.png The U.S.$30M Google Lunar XPRIZE is an unprecedented competition to challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs fr...

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Q&A: China lunar chief plots voyage to far side of moon By Dennis Normile Sciencemag.org July 21, 2016 http://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/styles/article_main_large/public/images/si-Weiren.jpg?itok=pMQMLGUl Wu Weiren As chief designer for the China National Space Administration's (CNS...

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U.S. and Russian Scientists Are Making Plans to Go Back to the Moon Together What U.S.-Russian cooperation in space might look like in ten years: a moon base By Anatoly Zak Popularmechanics.com July 19, 2016 http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/29/1468866738-02-mpp-rkk-phase1.jpg American and Russian engi...

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The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule by Keith Collins Qz.com July 09, 2016 https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/nasa2.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940 NASA When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out t...

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The US and Russia are making plans to return to the Moon together One big, happy lunar family by Fiona MacDonald Sciencealert.com July 21, 2016 http://www.sciencealert.com/images/articles/processed/NASAmoon_web_1024.jpg NASA It was 47 years ago that NASA won the space race against the Soviet Union,...

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ISRO starts landing tests for Chandrayaan-2 mission by Madhumathi D S TheHindu October 25, 2016 Simulated lunar craters created in Chitradurga to plan Lander’s descent The Indian Space Research Organsiation started a series of ground and aerial tests linked to the critical Moon landing of Chandraya...

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Scientist Identify The Source Of The Moon's Water by Matt Williams Universetoday.com July 21, 2016 http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Moon_water1-700x432.jpg New research finds that asteroids delivered as much 80 percent of the Moon's water. Credit: LPI/David A. Kring Over the ...

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On this day in 2008, India successfully launched Chandrayaan 1 to the Moon by Tech Desk Indianexpress.com October 22, 2016 ISRO's Chandrayaan 1 probe helped scientists discover the widespread presence of water molecules in lunar soil. Chandrayaan 1 mission was launched on top of a PSLV-XL rocket on...

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Making Moon Missions happen. Twice over by N Srinivasa Hegde Yourstory.com October 22, 2016 Srinivasa Hegde, Mission Director, TeamIndus, on putting together his first sojourn to the Moon – the Chandrayaan-1, of which he was Mission Director. https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_200_200/AAEAAQA...

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The Moon Has Its Own Paparazzi by Laura Mallonee Wired October 22,2016 FOR SEVEN YEARS, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has circled the moon, hovering just miles above its pock-marked surface. And every day, the craft’s on-board camera snaps over 600 photographs of the satellite’s craters, dunes, ...

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Russia to Spend $60Mln in 2016-2018 to Fund Space Voyages to Moon, Mars by Sputnik International June 24, 2016 https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/images/103877/63/1038776302.jpg Russian Moon Base to Hold Up to 12 People (SPUTNIK/ ANTON DENISOV) The project to create a nuclear-power transport module, ...

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Russia Plans to Revive Lunar Rover Moon Exploration Program - Reports by Sputnik International October 21, 2016 https://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/104340/34/1043403439.jpg The Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Council has plans to revive a moon exploration program using lunar rovers, Russian ...

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Scientists Study the Moon to Learn About Dinosaur Killing Asteroid Impact by Jay Bennett Popularmechanics.com October 20, 2016 http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/42/980x490/landscape-1476854518-illustration-1.jpg NASA Scientific Visualization Studio The craters on the moon are more pristine than any on ...

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China Wants the Moon. But First, It Has to Spend a Month in Space by Emma Grey Elllis Wired , October 19, 2016 https://assets.wired.com/photos/w_1132/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GettyImages-615071066.jpg The Long March-2F rocket carrying Shenzhou 11 manned spacecraft blasts off from launch pad on Oc...

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Turns Out, the Moon Gets a New Surface Every 81,000 Years by Jelor Gallego Futurism.com October 19, 2016 IN BRIEF Scientists discovered new information about how much activity actually happens on the lunar surface. By studying an area just 6.6% of the Moon's surface, scientists found 222 craters – ...

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Google Lunar XPRIZE’s Team HAKUTO Signs a Joint Research Agreement with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency by T OKYO, JAPAN (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 08, 2016 Team HAKUTO, the Japanese Google Lunar XPRIZE Team managed by ispace technologies Inc., announced today that it has signed a joint research agre...

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TeamIndus confident that it will soft land on moon by 2017 By Rashmi Menon, TNN September 18, 2016, http://img.etimg.com/thumb/msid-54391194,width-310,resizemode-4,imglength-202357/teamindus-confident-that-it-will-soft-land-on-moon-by-2017.jpg Narayan shares with his experience of listening to Dr B...

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India inducts INS Arihant into service, quietly completes its nuclear triad by Zeenews.com October 18,2016 http://ste.india.com/sites/default/files/2016/10/18/539193-ins-arihant.jpg New Delhi: Indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant was commissioned into service in August, a report said on Tuesday...

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Russian cosmonauts are preparing to land on the MOON: Roscosmos begins lunar landing trials in 1970s simulator by Abigail Beall Dailymail.co.uk September 21, 2016 Russia's plan to conquer the moon has started to take shape. The agency has started a series of experiments to simulate the conditions a...

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ISRO plans lab on moon to dig into its soil composition by Yazhiniyan Dtnext.in , August 21, 2016 In yet another big step in its history, the Indian Space Research Organisation has planned to set up a chemical laboratory to analyse the composition of Moon. http://img.dtnext.in.s3.amazonaws.com/Imag...

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We take more risks as we push the boundaries: TeamIndus’s Rahul Narayan by Leslie D'Monte Livemint.com , September 22, 2016 Rahul Narayan, ‘fleet commander’ on TeamIndus—India’s only entrant in the Google Lunar XPrize moon landing competition—on his role and the challenges he faces http://www.livem...

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ISRO to practice Moon Landing in ‘no-fly zone’ in Bengaluru for Chandrayaan-II mission by Rohan Ganguly, Tecake.in October 6, 2016 http://2d611ab378fb34d564df6306.97fr74ajv1lbbe472n.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/aircraft-test-isro.jpeg?x47949 In order to help Indian space scientists ove...

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Why Didn't Russia Ever Make It to the Moon? by Avery Thompson, Popularmechanics.com August 24, 2016 http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/34/980x490/landscape-1472067026-russia-moon-landing.jpg It's a basic fact of history that on July 20, 1969, NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the fir...

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ISRO plans to set up telescope on the moon by Express News Service , October 15, 2016 http://images.newindianexpress.com/uploads/user/imagelibrary/2016/10/15/original/ISROChairmanDrASKiranKumarduringtheDrAPJAbdulKalamMemoriallecture.jpg ISRO Chairman Dr A S Kiran Kumar during the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam...

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Russian space agency begins moon landing simulations by rt.com September 20 2016 https://img.rt.com/files/2016.09/original/57e00a94c46188e3478b45da.jpg Russian space agency Roscosmos and top spacecraft manufacturer RSC Energia have begun simulating a manned landing on the moon, using a unique gravi...

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Rocket scientists reach for the sky by Zhao Lei for Xinhua New s Oct 13, 2016 http://www.spxdaily.com/images-lg/models-rockets-long-march-series-lg.jpg Models of rockets from the Long March series are on display at an aviation technology exhibition in Beijing on Sept 18. Image courtesy Chen Xiaogen...

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Why GSLV Mark III’s Success Is Really Important by Swarajyamag.com Surajit Dasgupta October 14, 2016 http://quintype-01.imgix.net/swarajya/2016-10/e1ae64aa-a69e-43d9-8006-a47086ec5a78/manohar-parrikar.jpg?w=640&q=60&fmt=pjpeg&auto=format SnapShot: While success stories keep emanating fr...

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To Get to Mars, Head for the Moon by Greg Flakus, Voanews.com October 14, 2016 HOUSTON — Since the last mission to the moon, half a century ago, space enthusiasts have been talking about a trip to Mars. President Barack Obama this week reiterated the call for a U.S. mission to Mars that he first pr...

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Tiny craters, big impact: The moon's surface may be more dynamic than once thought by Amina Khan, latimes.com October 12, 2016 http://www.trbimg.com/img-57fc2013/turbine/la-1476141268-snap-photo/900/900x506 This image of the moon's north polar region was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Ca...

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Moon Craters Appearing Faster Than Thought Could falling space rocks imperil future moon missions? https://assets.rbl.ms/8262151/1200x600.jpg New craters are forming on the surface of the moon more frequently than scientists had predicted, a new study has found. The discovery raises concerns about ...

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Face of the moon to change completely – in 81,000 years' time by Agence France-Presse in Paris, TheGuardian 13 October 2016 01.22 BST https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/70fcbbda0daf19709fc976bf5bb23b5ed1384b28/0_0_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?w=1920&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=7a...

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How the first private landing on the moon could move humanity forward A conversation with the founder of moon express by Cliff Ransom Popsci.com August 3, 2016 http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/medium_1x_/public/jain.jpg?itok=OZIhnWUl Naveen Jain co-founded Moon Express, where he ...

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This Rocket Failed to put Soviets on the Moon by Amy Shira Teitel, Popsci.com October 3, 2016 It was so cold on February 20, 1969, that the launch was delayed; even the biggest of all Soviet rockets wasn’t immune to the frigid winters in Kazakstan. Conditions had warmed enough the next day, and at ...

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