MyMoon Blog

NASA and MyMoon have teamed up to blog about everything lunar. Art, literature, music, movies, science, and everything in between!

SCOOPING THE SOVIETS

In 1966, British astronomers tracked a Soviet spacecraft on its way to the Moon. They "stole" the signals containing information that would be put together to create the first image of another planetary body, the Moon. The Institute's Dr. ...

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Student Opportunities

WANT TO STUDY THE MOON?

Are you interested in pursuing lunar studies? Know someone who is? Check out the Moon Wikispace to see a list of universities with strong lunar science programs.

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Other Weird Stuff

YOU FINISH THE JOKE!

J. Edgar Hoover, Buzz Aldrin, and Ethel Merman walk into a bar. (Finish the joke below in the comments!)

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Student Opportunities

2011 MOONBUGGY REGISTRATION OPEN

Four decades after the first NASA lunar rover rolled across the surface of the moon, innovative students are preparing to design and build a new generation of wheeled wonders. Registration is open for the 18th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, set for April 1-2, 2011, in Huntsville, Ala. Participating schools and institutions may register one or two vehicles and teams. Registration closes Feb. ...

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MyMoon Announcements

NEW MYMOON POLL!

Which four faces would you like to see on a "lunar Mt. Rushmore"? Tell us!

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MyMoon Announcements

NEW BLOG INTERFACE!

The MyMoon blog has been live now for a little more than a year. We thought it was time to give it a makeover. Not necessarily an extreme makeover, but a makeover. You may note that the blogs and news items have been combined into one...thing. You will also note a Twitter fall to the right of the blog/news page. Tweets appearing here use the hashtag #MyMoonLPI. If you click on the pic of me ...

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MyMoon Announcements

COMING SOON

Very soon there will be a new look to the MyMoon news and blogs. You will also be able to have your own MyMoon page. No lie! Stay tuned...

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Commercial Space

X-PRIZE MOONBOTS WINNERS

The X-Prize foundation has announced the winners of the Moonbots robotics contest. Congrats to Team Landroids, a group of five eighth-graders in New Jersey.

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Lunar Science and Mission News

A NATURAL LUNAR BRIDGE

LROC has spied a "natural bridge" on the Moon. On Earth, natural bridges form by erosion from wind, rain, etc. Erosion doesn't exist on the Moon, so how could this happen?

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

WELCOME, THE ISLE OF MAN

A consulting company recently published their picks of the top 5 nations that are in contention to land the next man on the Moon. The Isle of Man came in at #5.

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MyMoon Announcements

WEBCASTS

If you missed Brian Day's awesome webcast you can view the recording here. Our next webcast is September 7th with Jake Bleacher at 2pm Eastern.

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COMMUNITY BLOGGERS:
TOPIC OF THE WEEK: WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT THE MOON?

The Moon ain't what it used to be. People gush about asteroids, Mars, Jovian moons, exoplanets...but it feels like if you bring up the Moon, you mostly just get either a blank or a 'meh'. When ...

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ASTRONOMY DAY AND STARGAZING WITH THE MOON

Today is Astronomy Day, and one of the best ways to celebrate is by going out and doing some stargazing. And one of the best ways to get started with stargazing is to use the Moon as a guide and ...

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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: LIFE IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

The mission of the Kepler Project is to discover habitable planets orbiting other stars. However, many of these planets are light years away and unreachable by humans with our current technology. So ...

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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: MOON EXPLORATION

Sorry for the late post everyone, has been a very busy week. But as for the topic of the week, I plan on talking about the exploration of the Moon, mainly the history and the alll of the lunar ...

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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: ASTEROID DETECTION

The recent meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia helped bring to light a very real problem. We do not have adequate ways to detect many of the damage causing asteroids impacting the ...

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