Nasa 'to support UK Moon mission'
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The US space agency is likely to back plans to send a UK probe to the Moon, BBC News has learned.
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With the moon on its horizon, NASA sees an increase in the 2006 budget proposed by the White House on Monday, but the 2.5 percent hike is not enough to save the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A US firm is proposing to use guided missile technology to help make a precision landing on the Moon.
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Russia hopes to join NASA's moon exploration programme with technology and know how, a Russian space agency spokesman said yesterday.  Igor Panarin said Russia was conducting talks with NASA and voiced hope that a deal could be reached within months.
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NASA unveiled plans today to set up a small and ultimately self-sustaining settlement of astronauts on the South Pole of the moon sometime around 2020, the first step in an ambitious plan to resume manned exploration of the solar system.
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European Space Agency's Smart 1 probe is set to enter into orbit around the Moon on Monday.
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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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By RON MOORE  A SALTIRE that has flown above the Scottish Parliament is to be taken into space by Nasa.   Astronaut Nick Patrick, whose mum is from Skye, will take the flag on his maiden space shuttle mission in December.
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NASA, which first put man on the moon, will now help to map the Earth in the name of conservation, the agency announced Thursday. NASA and the World Conservation Union
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Google and the X Prize Foundation are sponsoring a space race to the moon, with $30 million in prizes being offered to spur interest.
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With the moon on its horizon, NASA sees a slight increase in the budget proposed by President Bush on Monday, but it's not enough to save the Hubble Space Telescope.
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(InfoWorld) - Google will pay up to $30 million in prize money to anyone able to land a privately funded spacecraft on the moon, because "it's cool," the company said on its blog. "More seriously, space exploration has a remarkable history of producing technological breakthroughs," wrote Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering, on Google's blog. He cited ablative heat shields, asteroid mining, invisible braces, and the Tang orange drink as past achievements, and said the prize money could lead to further developments in robotics, new space-age materials, precision landing control technology, "and who knows what else." Teams from around the world will vie for the Google Lunar X-Prize by building lunar missions complete with robotic rovers capable of roaming the surface of the moon for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and other data back to Earth, according to a statement from the X Prize Foundation. The X Prize Foundation is best known for another space competition, the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private suborbital spaceflight, won by SpaceShipOne three years ago. Google teamed up with the foundation on the lunar project. A grand prize of $20 million will go to the first team to land a privately funded spacecraft to the Moon and complete several tasks. Bonuses of up to $5 million can be earned from roaming an additional 5,000 meters on the surface of the Moon, finding and photographing man made artifacts left on the lunar surface, such as hardware from one of the Apollo missions, discovering water ice, and surviving a lunar night, a frigid affair lasting 14.5 Earth days, the foundation said. The remaining $5 million will be paid to the second place finisher in the competition. Images from the lunar landing will be available online at the Google Lunar X Prize Web site. There is a time limit to the competition. The value of the grand prize will drop to $15 million after Dec. 31, 2012, and on Dec. 31, 2014 the contest will end unless extended by Google and the X Prize Foundation.
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A UK team develops a concept mission to return rock samples to Earth from the Martian moon Phobos.
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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 dishwasher-sized spacecraft on Europe's first mission to the moon was set to enter lunar orbit, a key milestone in its 13-month trip into space, the European Space Agency said.
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Google is backing private attempts to put a rover on the Moon with a $30m prize pot.
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While NASA is best known for putting a man on the moon, the U.S. space agency will now help keep plant and animal species on Earth.