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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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Lunar Peeps

BUZZ GONE WILD

There is no doubt that Buzz Aldrin is the most outspoken of the Apollo astronauts. While most of the Moon walkers from NASA's glory days tend stay out of the spotlight, Buzz seems to do all that he can to stay in it. Let me be clear on one point before I proceed. I completely respect Buzz for having walked on the Moon. I mean, come on, he WALKED ON THE MOON! Only 12 people can say they have ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

HELP THE DESERT RATS!

NASA's Desert RATS will be conducting more tests in northern Arizona beginning next month. Help them make their plans! Submit your vote for which geologic feature they should investigate.

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Arts & Entertainment

WINNERS AND RELEASES

NASA has released Moonbase Alpha, a free, on-line video game giving gamers a taste of lunar adventure. NASA this week also announced the winners of the 2010 Life and Work on the Moon Art and Design Contest.

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Arts & Entertainment

MOONBASE ALPHA

NASA will release a new lunar videogame, Moonbase Alpha, on July 6. Check out the trailer here.

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MyMoon Announcements

PAT RAWLINGS WEBCAST

Did you miss Pat Rawlings webcast a few weeks ago? Check it out here!

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MyMoon Announcements

NEW POLLS SYSTEM!

No more hanging chads! Oh, wrong kind of poll. OK. So we finally figured it out. All of our previous polls on MyMoon have forced you to vote on what we thought were your ideas. Problem is, that's not YOUR voice. Well, can now add your voice to the Polls! When you enter the Polls page, you will see a question like you always have. We have even thrown in a few ringer responses. If you like ...

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Arts & Entertainment

ART ON THE MOON?

Apparently, some better known artists of the 1960s got together to put their work on the Moon. Interesting, the Apollo 12 lunar module pilot, Alan Bean, is himself a painter. Coincidence? Or another conspiracy?

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Todd the Moon

TODD SPEAKS OUT YET AGAIN

The Moon, who goes by the name of Todd, has sent us at MyMoon another blog. He is concerned with the growing number of activities promoting the examination of his surface. While one never truly gets used to being looked upon constantly, I have reveled in your race's fascination with me, and have put forth considerable effort to show you my best face at all times. Even before you began recording ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

US & JAPANESE LUNAR ROBOTS

NASA may send an android to the Moon in three years and Japan is hoping to have a robotic lunar base in operation by 2020.

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Arts & Entertainment

MOON TATS: PART 2

Today I post the second (and final) installment of our adventure at the Houston Tatto and Body Art Expo a few weeks ago. Don't forget to check out the picks we took! Our next step was to track down the artists … and we met Clint … Clint Leifeste of CMFL. To create Susan’s galaxy he integrated anime with the imagery he had seen on Discovery. ...

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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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