US plans base on Moon
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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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Moon base will not be a squat NASA has confirmed its moon base will not illegally occupy other people's land.â¦
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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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NASA's plans for returning people to the moon -- an objective called for by President Bush in 2004 -- includes establishing a permanent outpost would be used to prepare for a manned trip to Mars.
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Japan claims its project is the biggest since Apollo. China says it is readying its probes to study the lunar surface to plan a landing.
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NASA announced Monday it will establish an international base camp on one of the moon's poles, permanently staffing it by 2024, four years after astronauts return to the moon.
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A plan for the first British-led mission  to the Moon won the backing of an Anglo-American space  committee on Friday.
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âIf we can land a man on the moon, why canât we ...?â is a question that continues to engage innovators and scholars.
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By The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 7--This past week the Bush administration put a down payment on its promise to return astronauts to the moon and eventually land a manned vehicle on Mars.
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BRECKENRIDGE, Colorado &#150; The deployment of space platforms that capture sunlight for beaming down electrical power to Earth is under review by the Pentagon, as a way to offer global energy and security benefits &#150;  including the prospect of short-circuiting future resource wars between increasingly energy-starved nations.
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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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The European Space Agency's chief scientist sets out his vision for a DNA library on the Moon in case of emergency.
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Scientists have taken a giant leap toward making possible the dream of building a powerful telescope on the moon that could withstand even the harshest of lunar conditions.
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The U.S. military is developing contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could hit North America.
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WASHINGTON -- NASA and the vision for space exploration received a rare plug from President George W. Bush on Tuesday when the U.S. leader told a Cleveland audience why he decided in 2004 to have the space agency set its sights on the Moon.
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the moon, SMART-1, has been placed in orbit around the moon. European Space Agency (ESA) science director David Southwood says the moon&#39;s gravity captured the probe Monday.
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It has the technology to land men on the moon and send probes into the darkest reaches of space. But Nasa&#39;s newest project has more in common with school science lessons than Star Wars.