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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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

EITHER/OR: BRINGING LIFE TO A PLANET NEAR YOU

Many people here on Earth are waiting for the news that NASA has discovered life on Mars or any other planet within reach. What we should anticipate is the news that humans have delivered life to a barren planet like Mars! Science Fiction tells us that we could terraform entire planets to create a lush, balanced ecosystem similar to Earth. Common sense tells us that would require an excessive ...

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Politics of the Moon and Beyond

TOPIC OF THE WEEK: LAND OWNERSHIP ON THE MOON?

Technically, under space law, you can’t own land on the Moon. But that hasn’t stopped some of the efforts to change that. A Futurama take on a space homestead. ;) In the past, most of the efforts were just silly but more recently some folks have ...

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Commercial Space

RED BULL STRATOS: HIGH FLYING PUBLICITY STUNT OR IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC TRIUMPH?

Red Bull Stratos Jump Image ...

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Arts & Entertainment

MOON BANDS ON THE RISE, VOL. 2: LYKKE LI, BLACK PRAIRIE, A ROCKET TO THE MOON

The Moon’s been giving a ton of musical inspiration lately (check out Volume 1), with bands devoting their names, tunes, viral videos, and more to the Moon at an increasing rate. ...

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Politics of the Moon and Beyond

THE MOON AND SPACE TRAVEL IN POLITICS

**For this blog, I am going to do my best to be completely unbiased and just present the facts and discuss the stances of presidential candidates and other politicians on these areas. As well as make sure that my political opinions/beliefs do not show.** With the Presidential election quickly approaching, many people are wanting to know where the candidates stand on certain issues. The ...

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Arts & Entertainment

TOPIC OF THE WEEK: THE BEST MOON MOVIE?

Sam Bell. Nazis. Stanley Kubrick. The poster for 2009's "Moon". The Moon has seen its fair share of characters on the Silver Screen. Movies about the Moon have had everything from giant robots; escaped nazis; clones; and, well, astronauts running about on its surface. There’s been some ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

TOPIC OF THE WEEK: ROBOTS IN SPACE!

As we have been seeing with the recent discoveries from the Curiosity rover on Mars, robotic missions to other bodies in our solar system have been extremely valuable scientifically. Just a few days ago, the rover discovered strong evidence for the presence of a stream on Mars in the past. But robotic missions can provide valuable functions beyond science. These explorers could lend us help in ...

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Commercial Space

MOON ICE: WHY DO WE WANT MOON WATER?

One thing that puzzles a lot of people these days with the Moon is: why do companies want to mine water ice...on the Moon? Why do we want moon water---there’s plenty of water on Earth! NASA image of the ice-rich Shackleton Crater. Looking at the business plans of companies like ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

MINING THE MOON

Going along with the majority of my blogs, this one will be about the future of the moon and a possible reason to colonize and continuously plan return missions. Mining on the moon is a very possible outcome if the moon is to become colonized in the future. However, before mining would be possible, it would be necessary to determine if there are resources available on the moon that are scarce ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

COLONIZING THE MOON

One of the big questions regarding the moon is whether or not it should ever be colonized. I am curious to learn other people's beliefs on this subject. I believe that colonizing the moon is a definitive step forward in the space exploration age. Colonizing the moon allows for people to live on a different celestial body, if they wish. It may allow for more research to be done that we would ...

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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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