NASA's quest to return humans to the moon could boost a field of research that might not seem particularly lunar in nature: cosmology.
But the far side of the moon could be a powerful place to answer some of the most compelling questions about the universe — and NASA's push to bring humans back to the moon could cut the prices enough to make this science a reality. Even a scientist leading the push for NASA to investigate these missions admits it wasn't the most intuitive idea when he first heard about it.
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This Day in History: Apollo 8 celebrates Christmas from the moon
On this day in 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first humans to fly to and orbit the moon.
The historic mission helped the United States pull ahead of the Russians in the Space Race, and helped set the groundwork for Apollo 11's lunar landing just seven months later.
1968 had been a turbulent year in the U.S., with the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, along with the war in Vietnam and race riots in cities across the country.
South Korean prosecutors pressure on Moon with next target -
Yoo, who left the Finance Services Commission in March 2018 and got a job as vice mayor of Busan in July that year, was indicted on the bribery charges earlier this month.
While a bureaucrat in Roh's government, Yoo is said to have charmed the president, and the leader liked Yoo's remarks at meetings. Yoo was able to make connections with heavyweights of the country's current leadership, including Moon, who was then chief presidential secretary.
Given that Cho was not necessarily close to Yoo, speculation is mounting that someone senior to Cho instructed him to suspend Yoo's probe, and the attention now shifts to identifying this individual.
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See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon: China’s Lunar Radio Observatory | Hackaday
For nearly as long as there has been radio, there have been antennas trained on the sky, looking at the universe in a different light than traditional astronomy. Radio astronomers have used their sensitive equipment to study the Sun, the planets, distant galaxies, and strange objects from the very edge of the universe, like pulsars and quasars. Even the earliest moments of the universe have been explored, a portrait in microwave radiation of the remnants of the Big Bang.
And yet with all these observations, there’s a substantial slice of the radio spectrum that remains largely a mystery to radio astronomers. Thanks to our planet’s ionosphere, most of the signals below 30 MHz aren’t observable by ground-based radio telescopes.
A little lunar literacy to help you 'read the moon' - OttawaMatters.com
If you look up at the moon and it's a lovely crescent shape, can you determine how long until the next full moon? I'll hazard a guess that very few of you can do this — without looking at the calendar! This is yet another example of common knowledge that has been lost in just a couple of generations. (But I will tell you how to read the moon within this article.)
Probably a good many of you can see the Big Dipper constellation on a clear winter's night, but can you find the North Star using this star cluster to guide you? And why would you want to find the North Star anyway?
Astro Bob Blog: Follow the old moon to Christmas | Duluth News Tribune
Jan Wörner: Going forward to the Moon | SciTech Europa
The theme of this year's Open Day at ESA was 'ESA to the Moon'. The event celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo lunar landing, as well as highlighting ESA's role in returning people to the Moon , including contributing the service module to NASA's Orion spacecraft and participating in the Lunar Gateway, a station around the Moon to act as a base for both robotic and human explorers.
In this ministerial we will try to prepare for the future, meaning that we are proposing programmes for all of ESA's different activities – science and exploration, space, safety and security, and the applications including Earth Observation and telecommunications, as well as enabling and support, which covers technology and space transportation. It has taken two years of preparation to get to this critical point.
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Under a DAPPER Moon: NASA Eyes Wild Radio Science Projects on the Lunar Farside https://t.co/RQAJ0fxfHs https://t.co/dqhwYWsuCX SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Mon Dec 23 14:24:35 +0000 2019
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