MOUNTAIN VIEW — Vice President Mike Pence visited NASA Ames Research Center on Thursday to promote the most romantic of all infrastructure projects: our new home on the moon.
Prettier than a pothole fix, bolder than a bridge and fancier than a freeway, the moon project represents a return to a dream that was largely abandoned decades ago.
Pence's visit signaled the Trump Administration's continued commitment to putting people on the moon in 2024, first announced in March – and Ames' role in advancing the project.
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Spacewatch: Boeing proposes direct flights to moon in 2024 | Science | The Guardian
What would it feel like to touch the moon? | Technology News, The Indian Express
Twelve people have walked on the moon since humans landed there 50 years ago, but no one has ever directly touched its surface.
Those astronauts wore their spacesuits outside the lander. No one ever took off a glove or a boot while standing on the moon.
Touching lunar rocks inside a spacecraft, or in a museum, is one thing; removing a glove and exposing yourself to the vacuum of space is another. In science fiction, terrible things befall such astronauts: their blood boils away, their insides get sucked out.
Why Can You See the Moon During the Day? | Reader's Digest
It’s probably some of the earliest astronomy you learn. The sun is the big yellow-white ball in the sky during the day, while the moon is the shape-changing one that glows at night. And that’s true….except when it’s not. Sometimes, smack in the middle of the afternoon, you can clearly see the moon, usually a crescent or half, floating there in the sky, encroaching on the sun’s domain. What’s going on?
It has to do with the moon’s position in the sky. As the moon revolves around the Earth, the Earth also revolves around the sun. These revolutions cause the perceived “movements” of the moon and sun that we see in the sky. And because of them, the moon is only directly in line with the sun once every lunar month—that’s how we get the full moon. This means that the moon rises exactly as the sun sets, and vice versa.
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5 best places to view November 2019's full moon - Los Angeles Times
There are two full moons left in 2019 — and one is happening right now. The first full moon of November, also known as the beaver or frost moon, started Tuesday and will appear almost full for a few more nights.
Moonrise in Los Angeles starts at 5:39 p.m. Wednesday and doesn't set until 7:21 a.m. Thursday. By the way, the name "beaver moon" lines up with the time of year when beaver-trapping season would begin for Native Americans and early settlers. "Frost moon" connotes the time of year when the first frost appeared, particularly on the East Coast.
Apollo 12: The electrifying return to the Moon
This is a question that many people were asking even back in 1969. Though the historic importance of the first lunar landings is well understood today, and in the wake of Apollo 11 many top NASA brass were already lobbying for Moon colonies to be established and even the staging of the first manned missions to Mars, but there were also objections to continuing the Apollo program.
Some argued that Apollo 11 had been a great victory in the Cold War and there was no need to build on it with more landings. Others saw it as a great adventure story that had already been told, so what was the point of just playing out the same plot over and over. Meanwhile, some resented the costs of Apollo, which was the equivalent of that of a small war – especially when the US was already engaged in a very unpopular hot war in Indochina.
Why is the moon orange tonight? – The Sun
The moon has looked bigger in recent days because it is passing through its monthly Full Moon phase.
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The colour of the moon depends on how much of the atmosphere its light has to pass through before reaching us.
When the moon is low in the sky, its light hits the atmosphere at a shallower angle, meaning it has to travel through more atmosphere before reaching us.
The more atmosphere that light reflected by the moon has to pass through, the more orange or red it will appear.
Lesson of the Day: 'If I Touched the Moon, What Would It Feel Like?' - The New York Times
This article is the first in a series called "Good Question" in which Randall Munroe, a former NASA roboticist turned web cartoonist, tries to explain — through text and illustrations — the scientific mysteries that keep readers awake at night.
In this lesson, students learn what the moon feels like and why. Then they explore the science questions that are on their minds.
The article you are about to read poses the question: If I touched the moon, what would it feel like?
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