NASA Presents Details of Plans for Moon Base
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NASA announced new details Thursday about its plans for a Moon base that included a pair of small, pressurized rovers with a range of nearly 600 miles.
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When U.S. President George W. Bush stepped to the podium at NASA headquarters here Jan. 19, 2004, to call for returning humans to the Moon by 2020, cynics could be forgiven for giving the Vision for Space Exploration little chance of succeeding.
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An influential panel of US scientists says Nasa's plans to return to the Moon offer great potential for exploration.
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American space agency NASA announced plans to put a permanent space station on the moon as part of an eventual mission to Mars. Not to be outdone, China and India have announced 'lunar intentions'.
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The moon has very little atmosphere, and lots of dust. Those are some of the things being considered this week at the home of the Hubble Space Telescope, where astronomers are discussing the opportunities offered by NASA's plan to return to the moon, including the possibility of a telescope on the lunar surface.
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By FRANZEN  Three years ago, when the Bush administration announced plans to send a manned mission to Mars, a base on the moon was a part of those plans.
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PASADENA - Northrop Grumman Space Technology has been selected to help NASA design a nuclear-powered spacecraft to orbit and explore three moons of Jupiter that may have oceans beneath their icy surfaces.
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NASA&#39;s plans to send robots and people to the moon and Mars threaten long-planned science missions, a national science panel warns.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It'll be cheaper to build a permanent moon base and keep it running, than it will be to get to the moon. Just don't ask how much, NASA's boss says.The U.S.
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A new report released by an American Physical Society (APS) Special Committee on NASA Funding for Astrophysics has questioned the space agency's Moon, Mars and Beyond initiative. The APS assessment warns that t  he cost of overcoming technological challenges to make real the plan could far exceed budgetary projections and that numerous&nbsp;approved science programs could be jeopardized.
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Nasa says it will start building a permanent base on the Moon after astronauts return there in 2020.
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The agency envisions a base at one of the lunar poles, to take advantage of the near-constant sunlight.
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The lunar outpost will be built at one of the moon's poles, where near constant sunlight makes solar power feasible, officials said.
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NASA's images from the Apollo moon landings, the Voyager planetary flybys and the many space shuttle missions will be accessible through a central, searchable Web site under a partnership between the space agency and the nonprofit Internet Archive.
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NASA named a consortium led by US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp. to design and build a new spacecraft that will take astronauts back to the moon.
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A US firm is proposing to use guided missile technology to make an automated, precision landing on the Moon.
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With a green light from Congress, NASA is moving swiftly to carry out President George W. Bush&#39;s ambitious plan to return robots and humans to the moon and eventually to Mars.