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New Contender for NASA Administrator: Ret. USAF Gen. Lester L. Lyles
Despite Gen. Scott Gration having been an apparent early leader for the role of new NASA Administrator, reports have been indicating that there is a new frontrunner for the job: Retired USAF Gen....
View ArticleNew High-Quality Footage of Armstrong’s First Step
New Footage of Armstrong’s First Steps That’s a new video of Neil Armstrong’s first step onto the Moon, which has surfaced originally from a DVD rip by the site Depleted Cranium and made its way...
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The Dust is Settled?: Lunar Dust 'Stickiness' Influenced By Sun's Elevation
A new study of old dusted-off data has shown that lunar dust’s stickiness varies with the elevation of the sun. 75-year-old Australian scientist Brian O’Brien compiled the study by himself over a...
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Moon Colonization: An American Historical Perspective
On this, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the map above demonstrates not only where America stood in 1803; in a sense, it is where America stands now. The Apollo 11 mission is often...
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Orbiting Atlas #4: Mare Tranquillitatis (The Sea of Tranquility)
Orbiting Atlas is a weekly series here at Luna C/I looking at notable points inselenography—the geography of the Moon. Come by every Monday for an exploration of a different locale, and its potential...
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Orbiting Atlas #6: Oceanus Procellarum—The Ocean of Storms
Orbiting Atlas is a weekly series here at Luna C/I looking at notable points inselenography—the geography of the Moon. Come by every Monday for an exploration of a different locale, and its potential...
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LRO Image of the Week #2: Eagle Has Landed
This week’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Image of the Week is perhaps the Orbiter’s most famous (already): it is an image of the Apollo 11 lunar lander (Eagle) on the surface of the moon! This image...
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LRO Image of the Week: The Rolling Stones Wish You Were Here?
For this edition of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Image of the Week, we summit the central peak of Tsiolkovskiy– a conspicuously dark crater on the far side of the Moon. The location of...
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Moon's Interior Has 100 Times More Water Than Previously Thought?
Space.com has reported that a new study has shown that the Moon’s interior may have 100 times more water than previously thought. The study of volcanic glass beads found during Apollo suggests that the...
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Even More Moon Water Found! Apollo 17 Orange Soil Adds Wrinkle to Moon Origin...
A new study of the famous orange soil from Apollo 17 shows that the Moon’s interior holds even more water than previously thought…and that our current lunar origin theories are holding a little less....
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