US plans to colonize moon in 2020
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The United States plans to set up a colony on the south pole of the moon around 2020 as a base for further manned exploration of the solar system, NASA announced.
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The space agency said it plans to form lunar research teams around the country.
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NASA says we'll establish a permanent villa by 2024.
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Another possible step toward cooperation in space between the United States and China is now on the calendar. The head of the Chinese National Space Agency will travel to Washington
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Sending people to the moon and Mars is no longer just President Bush&#39;s vision. It&#39;s officially the United States&#39; new mission in space.
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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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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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European Space Agency's Smart 1 probe is set to enter into orbit around the Moon on Monday.
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European scientists are about to reach for the moon. After a 13-month journey, driven by a new kind of technology, an experimental spacecraft the size of a washing machine will begin to orbit around the moon on Monday night.
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London - Europe âs first lunar spacecraft SMART-1 is set to move into orbit around the Moon on Monday the 15 November 2004 . The craft has already reached the âgatewayâ of the Moon, the area where from its gravity dominates the Earth.
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A US-European spacecraft is preparing to explore the planet Saturn&#39;s huge moon, Titan. The &quot;Cassini-Huygens&quot; spacecraft that has orbited the ringed planet since July is to venture within 1,200 kilometers of the cloud-covered moon on 26 October.
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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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NASA said on Monday it  plans to build a permanently occupied base on the moon, most  likely at the lunar south pole.
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India&#39;s unmanned moon mission -Chandrayan - is expected to take place in 2007-08 as it is progressing smoothly, the country&#39;s space agency chief G. Madhavan Nair said Sunday in New Delhi.
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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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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 unveiled plans yesterday to set up a small and ultimately self-sustaining settlement of astronauts at the south pole of the moon sometime around 2020 -- the first step in an ambitious plan to resume manned exploration of the solar system.