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Is It Time to Return to the Moon?

June 14, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Humans haven’t set foot on the Moon — or any other world outside of our own, for that matter — since Cernan and Schmitt departed the lunar surface on December 14, 1972. That will make 40 years on that date this [...]

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An Anti-Gravity User Interface

May 17, 2012

Researcher Jinha Lee at MIT has developed a remarkable way to interact with computers — via a programmable, intelligent and gravity-defying metal ball. The concept, called “ZeroN”, is demonstrated in the video above. Fascinating! Remove this ad

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1st Student Selected MoonKAM Pictures Look Inspiringly Home to Earth

March 22, 2012

The first student selected photos of the Moon’s surface snapped by NASA’s new pair of student named Lunar Mapping orbiters – Ebb & Flow – have just been beamed back and show an eerie view looking back to the Home Planet – and all of Humanity – barely rising above the pockmarked terrain of the [...]

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America’s Youth Christen NASA’s Twin New Lunar Craft – Ebb & Flow

January 18, 2012

A classroom of America’s Youth from an elementary school in Bozeman, Montana submitted the stellar winning entry in NASA’s nationwide student essay contest to rename the twin GRAIL lunar probes that just achieved orbit around our Moon on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day 2012 “Ebb” & “Flow” – are the dynamic duo’s official [...]

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NASA’s Unprecedented Science Twins are GO to Orbit our Moon on New Year’s Eve

December 29, 2011

In less than three days, NASA will deliver a double barreled New Year’s package to our Moon when an unprecedented pair of science satellites fire up their critical braking thrusters for insertion into lunar orbit on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. NASA’s dynamic duo of GRAIL probes are “GO” for Lunar Orbit Insertion [...]

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