Slowly but Cheaply, a New Way to the Moon
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SMART-1, a spacecraft carrying an experimental engine, was designed to test ion propulsion. A mission set to begin in 2006, called Dawn, will use ion propulsion to explore the asteroids Ceres and Vesta in a multi-year journey.
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New images from the Cassini spacecraft reveal undulating kinks in one of the rings and theft of ring dust by a moon. The kinks are seen in greater detail than ever before and the thievery has been photographed for the first time.
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When the space station passes across the Sun or moon, the scene offers an interesting demonstration of how planet hunter's look for new candidates by measuring the periodic dimming of a parent star.
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The phenomenon, known as frame-dragging, is quite small, amounting to 6 feet in the distance that satellites, moving at about 18,000 miles per hour, cover in their orbits in a year, but it is within the ability of NASA&#39;s instruments to detect.
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As Neil Armstrong prepared to take his "one small step" onto the moon in July 1969, a specially hardened video camera tucked into the lander's door clicked on to capture that first human contact with the lunar surface. The ghostly images of the astronaut's boot touching the soil record what may be...
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By SETH BORENSTEIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  Building a permanent moon base and keep it running will be less expensive than getting to the Moon. Just don't ask how much, NASA's boss says.  The U.S.
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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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By DAVID McHUGH  BERLIN - Europe's first mission to the moon got a scare Saturday, but ground controllers were able make a last-minute course correction that kept the European Space Agency craft from prematurely hitting a lunar crater's rim.
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In this artist&#39;s rendition released by the European Space Agency, the European-made SMART-1 solar-powered satellite is seen nearing the Moon on its way to make the first comprehensive inventory of key chemical elements in the lunar surface.
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PARIS, France -- Europe&#39;s first mission to the moon has successfully entered lunar orbit, a key milestone in its 13-month trip into space.
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It&#39;s been a long trip, but Europe&#39;s first Moon mission is finally nearing its goal. SMART-1, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) way back on 27 September 2003, will go into orbit around the Moon on 15 November.
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By The Associated Press  BERLIN - Europe's first mission to the moon got a scare, but ground controllers made a last-minute course correction early Saturday that kept the craft from hitting the surface earlier than planned.
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Commercial space flight doesn't offer too many opportunities for investors, but there is one tiny prospect.
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A small spacecraft has made it into lunar orbit, signaling Europe's first successful mission to the moon and paving the way for the craft to be used to study the lunar surface, a European Space Agency spokesman said Tuesday.
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ORLANDO, Florida -- Replanting boot prints on the Moon. Hurling expeditionary crews to distant and dusty Mars and other destinations. Executing a 21st century outreach campaign to faraway worlds demands a safe, sustainable, and affordable transport vehicle system.
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After the first Apollo mission, funding appears for a resurgence in moon exploration.
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After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, a Â£1.7bn US-European mission is preparing for the unknown. Cassini, a Nasa spacecraft the size of a truck, carrying Huygens, a European robot not much