NASA Plans Lunar Outpost
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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.
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A sophisticated autopilot system that could play a vital role in missions to the moon or Mars will be tested this week during a $100 million demonstration 500 miles above Earth.
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A device developed in Boulder has been selected by NASA to fly aboard a $400 million lunar-mapping mission set for launch in 2008.
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A Russian automatic base may be established on the Moon in 2020-2025, an official of the Russian Space Agency said. Speaking in Washington at a NASA conference on the International Space System program, Nikolai
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NASA has installed a climate-observation system at a former U.S. military base bordering the Panama Canal that will allow scientists to monitor forest fires, earthquakes and tropical storms.
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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 plan to permanently colonize the moon holds out the promise of a dramatic advance in space exploration, but the ambitious project requires massive financing and a high level of global cooperation.
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NASA is readying a mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and its asteroid cousin Vesta.
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Flush with a newly approved $16.2 billion budget, NASA will be able to flesh out a way to save the Hubble Space Telescope, choose a new spacecraft and develop new ways to get back to the moon, Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe said Tuesday.
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HOUSTON, Texas - NASA's new goal of establishing a 21st century Moon base will require bridge building while mending fences between space scientists and exploration technologists.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - 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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By SETH BORENSTEIN   Associated Press writer  WASHINGTON -- NASA may be going to the same old moon with a ship that looks a lot like a 1960s Apollo capsule, but the space agency said Monday that it's going to do something dramatically different this time: Stay there.
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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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Russia hopes to participate in U.S. lunar exploration projects and has submitted proposals on possible duties, the Russian Federal Space Agency said.
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The next decade will see nations scrambling to build outposts on the moon with each adapting different strategies to use it as a base to explore space, according to scientists attending a conference on lunar exploration.
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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 will tack a day on to the mission of the space shuttle Discovery so crew members can do âexploratory surgeryâ on part of the International Space Station.