As NASA ramps up for the first manned trip to the moon in more than 50 years, it has enlisted two Connecticut companies with roots in the state's aerospace industry to pitch in.
The space agency's " Tipping Point " solicitation awarded $2.6 million this fall to Skyre Inc. of East Hartford that will develop a system to make propellant from permanently frozen water at the moon's poles. And it awarded $4 million to Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Inc. of Windsor, which will collaborate with NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to develop a flexible power and energy product to reduce cost and improve reliability.
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India Could Land on the Moon in 2020 with Chandrayaan 3 | Space
Just months after a landing anomaly , India is hard at work pursuing another try at touching down on the moon, according to a news report.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is already designing Chandrayaan 3, which would only include a lander and a rover because India already has a working orbiter at the moon — Chandrayaan 2 .
Chandrayaan 2 attempted to deploy a lander called Vikram on Sept. 6, but that spacecraft fell silent during landing . India said that it saw Vikram on the surface after the landing, but instruments on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter hadn't spotted it as of late October .
The race to mine the moon is taking off — even though no one's sure if it's possible
A California-based company called OffWorld, whose ultimate goal is to enable "human expansion beyond our home planet," is preparing for the initial phase of its extraterrestrial plans: mining the moon with a fleet of autonomous robots.
The company, which boasts a 26-person team according to Digital Trends , is one of several companies with sky-high ambitions.
The moon-mining industry has already begun to take off thanks to moonshot investments, but the industry still faces an interesting problem…
The Ticuna women of the Colombian Amazon: sun, moon and mother earth |
"This majestic jungle is not ours; This belongs to Colombia, and we are servants of the world," says Delfino Parente, a Ticuna leader. Español
This article was a finalist in the competition on indigenous journalism run by Survival International, democraciaAbeirta and El Espectador.
Navigating through the Amazon River, floating green plants known as buchones are scattered through the river, accompanied by luscious mangrove trees, while the typical tropical jungle bushes, Renacos, with aerial roots that descend into the ground, open the way and welcome you to the Amazon basin, in heavy rain.
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‘Moon Halos’ : explained | KXAN.com
On Saturday evening, KXAN viewer Nick Rober captured this image. If you look closely, there is a very faint ring around the moon.
The ring is referred to as a ‘ 22-degree halo ‘ and appears as a light circle around the sun or moon. Why the name? The circle has a radius of ~22°.
Thin, high clouds called ‘cirrus clouds’ are made up of millions of tiny ice crystals thousands of feet in the atmosphere. Light reflecting off the moon or shining from the sun is refracted , which then creates a visible ring surrounding the sun/moon.
Need To Review NASA's Plan To Drop Planetary Protection For Parts Of Mars - May Jeopardize
… where there is only a remote chance that contamination carried by a spacecraft could jeopardize future exploration”. In this case we define “remote chance” as “the absence of niches (places where terrestrial microorganisms could proliferate) and/or a very low likelihood of transfer to those places.
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The results of this decision can impact on other countries too. The future discoveries of ESA (Europe), ROSCOSMOS (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ISRO (India), CNSA (China) are all potentially impacted if we contaminate Mars irreversibly with Earth microbes, as well as the future industries that may be based on discoveries from Mars
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Kathie Lee Gifford's daughter Cassidy gets engaged: 'Beyond the moon and stars' |
The former “ Today ” show host took to Instagram on Sunday to announce daughter Cassidy’s engagement to Ben Wierda and noted she was “beyond the moon and stars.”
“So thrilled to announce that my beautiful daughter, @cassidygiff is engaged to a wonderful man, Ben @letsgetwierda I am beyond the moon and stars,” Gifford wrote.
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In a series of Instagram Stories, Cassidy showed off her new engagement ring while celebrating with friends.
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