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... of water on the Moon. Unfortunately, the long, drawn out repositioning of our national space program has brought the space community to loggerheads, leaving the future of the U.S. manned space program in jeopardy. The upheaval caused ... radar being launched to the Moon aboard Chandrayaan-1 ), Paul's easy to read essays have followed and reported on the growing upheaval in the space community and the battle being waged for the ideological control of ...

... on in US space policy that has been underway for many years, but became public with the 2004 announcement by President G. W. Bush that America is going to return to the Moon and go on to Mars. His speech caused a shockwave in the US space community and caused immediate controversy in a field that had been rocked ...

... the crossing of one of the poles during a polar circumnavigation (on account of the moon's small obliquity) or long-term breakdown during an equatorial circumnavigation, will impose challenges in ... innovations for studies away from pressurized vehicles. The accomplishment of the first lunar circumnavigation will represent a significant milestone in Solar System expeditionary endeavour. Other lunar ...

... position because the module would be orbiting around Earth and the gravitational pull would keep it in place. At first, the modules will orbit around the Earth but, in the future, the modules will be docked together in space and then a larger propulsion system or bus will move the stations to land on the Moon ...

The Moon actually has three lengths, and its shape is technically known as a triaxial ellipsoid. As you look at the Moon, there is an axis that runs straight through it at the center pointing ... to each other, but very close. The differences in the lengths of these three axes give the Moon a sort of egg shape (but not very much), with the fat end pointing to Earth, and its ... maps yet of the Moon to have an exact number for the diameters noted above, but on average the diameter of the Moon is about ~ 2,160 miles. http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html (See ...

... eyes the Moon appears white. The colors of the Moon as seen from the Earth's surface are also determined by the dust or moisture found in the atmosphere. Dust also absorbs the shorter (blue) wavelengths of light making the Moon redder in color. For example, the orange color often associated with the harvest, or fall moon in European culture, is the result of dust in the atmosphere ...

... the Moon is either sunlight bouncing off the Moon and into our eyes (the bright part of a crescent Moon), or sunlight bouncing off the Earth, then the Moon and back into our eyes (the dim part of a crescent Moon). Earthlight, the light during the lunar ...

... small meteors impacting the Moon might have been observed as very small explosions, say the size of a small fire cracker, if an astronaut was in the right place to observe them. Because the Moon has no atmosphere, there are no natural chemical explosions on the Moon. Nuclear explosions ...

... experience the Moon's level of gravity. The moon is rich in resources and energy. Humans will use the Moon to generate clean safe energy for the Earth. Humans will also mine metals and other materials on the Moon that will be used to reduce the ...

... community or city on the Moon, and perhaps more than one, but doing so will depend on several factors. One factor is finding useful things to do on the Moon, because we're not doing this just for fun. In the early years support from Earth will be critical, and it will be easy for support to wane among the general ... animals and insects. The kinds of activities we seek to undertake on the Moon will influence the design. A base designed solely to provide support to some infrared (IR) telescopes on the Moon will be a ...

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