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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Politics of the Moon and Beyond

NO MORE MOON

Well it appears to be official. With one swift statement, President Obama made it clear he has no interest in returning astronauts to the Moon. Under his new vision for NASA, astronauts will land on an asteroid in the 2020s, followed by astronauts orbiting Mars, that followed by a Mars landing in 2035, developing new technologies along the way. I agree with the President's point on developing ...

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Lunar Exploration History

DID YOU FEEL THAT?

40 years ago today, an oxygen tank on the Apollo 13 command module exploded threatening the lives of astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert. It was during this time that Jim Lovell uttered, "Houston, we've had a problem." A transcript of communications between mission control and the astronauts during the few minutes before and after the explosion can be found ...

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Lunar Science and Mission News

NEW MYMOON YOUTUBE VIDEO

Watch Chuck the MyMoon squirrel's SXSW interview with "We Are Scientists."

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Lunar Science and Mission News

LUNAR SCIENCE NEWS

The Lunar Pioneer blog has posted lots of great information this week including news from LROC and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper. NASA also released an interesting story about the discovery of a ...

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Lunar Science and Mission News

LUNAR SCIENCE FORUM

Know any lunar scientists attending the NASA Lunar Science Institute Forum at NASA Ames in July? Are you a lunar scientist attending? Don't forget abstract submissions for the forum are due May 3rd.

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The Moon in Culture

PEEPS

Easter was exciting to me as a kid because it was kind of like Halloween in the spring. I don't think I really ever believed in the Easter bunny. I didn't care. All I knew was there would be candy. Besides, when I was 10 years old, my dad ran over a rabbit on some back road on Good Friday and the candy still showed up on Sunday morning. I remember getting an unusually large amount of candy that ...

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Politics of the Moon and Beyond

WHAT'S WRONG WITH NASA?

What is the deal with NASA? LPI's Dr. Paul Spudis weighs in with his latest blog.

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Lunar Science and Mission News

LUNAR LAVA FLOWS

Some nice close-ups of layered lava flows on the floor of the Moon's Apollo Basin (really big crater).

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MyMoon Announcements

NEW POLL!

The Earth would be a very different place without the Moon. With no moon, which consequence do you think is the worst?

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Arts & Entertainment

GO AHEAD. HOWL AT THE MOON.

I saw "The Wolfman" shortly after it came out in theaters last month. Ironically, I saw it on the afternoon of Valentine's Day, alone. But riddle me this, who is the bigger loser? Me, for going alone on Valentine's Day, or the guy who went to the movie with his friend and his friend's girlfriend? I really liked this movie. I was especially impressed with the attention that was given ...

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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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