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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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Arts & Entertainment

MOON BANDS ON THE RISE, VOL. 1: LOST LANDER, WALK THE MOON, AWOLNATION

As a new era of space exploration dawns, it feels like musicians are starting to catch on---there’s been a ton of fun Moon and space references lately in band names, songs, album artwork, and you-name-it lately. ...

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Politics of the Moon and Beyond

FOR REASONS OF SECURITY AS WELL AS INSECURITY: A WORD ON TECHNOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION

By the year 2100 we hope.... People will see travellers going from Earth to the Moon (and/or beyond) as regularly as we might see planes flying people overhead now from America to Asia. It will become a common sight that could also suffer because uninformed people may easily come to take it for granted and disregard its true , present costs and benefits. It seems that times change and people ...

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Arts & Entertainment

INCOMING... NEW MYMOON APOLLO 11 MADLIB!

Here is the latest MyMoon MadLib submission. Didn't notice the MyMoon MadLibs? Take a closer look at the home page & click on the poster for your own fill-in-the-blank fun! Apollo 11 Lunar Monkey Neil: I'm at the foot of the mouse. The shirt are only depressed in the surface about 5 or 7 inches, although the paper appears to be very, very ...

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Commercial Space

GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE ROUNDUP #8

The $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is an awesome race to the Moon----challenging a variety of private companies to be the first to land their own rover on the lunar surface With 25 teams, all ramping up the action every week, there’s a lot of news that comes along! So each week I round up the best items ...

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Lunar Exploration History

NEIL ARMSTRONG: IN QUOTES

Neil Armstrong---the first man on the Moon (the first of many; including you & I?) passed away today at the age of 82. A person's spirit can often be best remembered through ...

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Commercial Space

GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE ROUNDUP #7

The $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is an awesome race to the Moon----challenging a variety of private companies to be the first to land their own rover on the lunar surface With 25 teams, all ramping up the action every week, there’s a lot of news that comes along! So each week I round up the best items ...

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Lunar Exploration History

MOON CONSPIRACY

To start off with, I am new to mymoonspace. My name is William Kockler. I am a Senior at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. I am triple majoring in physics, astronomy, and mathematics. It has always been a dream of mine to become an astronaut and travel to the moon. Over the past few years, I have heard a lot of people commenting on their ideas that the lunar landing of Apollo 11 was ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

THE RIGHT THINGS : STUFF WE NEVER HAD BEFORE

- - - - - - - - I just wanted to do a short blurb with some interesting things you can take a look at that will likely be implimented on future space exploration projects outside LEO... they all have links at the bottom of the sections; some you might have seen, some might blow your mind, all should be fairly commonplace at the Virgin Playboy Space Hotel and Casino .... someday. Enjoy ;) 1) ...

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Commercial Space

GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE ROUNDUP #6

The $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is an awesome race to the Moon----challenging a variety of private companies to be the first to land their own rover on the lunar surface With 25 teams, all ramping up the action every week, there’s a lot of news that comes along! So each week I round up the best items ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

THE TOP FIVE MOON CRATERS TO VISIT (AS A TOURIST)

The Moon is a big place, and one that a lot of us will be visiting before long. One of its most notable---and numerous---features are its lovely craters. Hundreds upon hundreds of fascinating holes in the ground. And as it turns out, pretty much all of them have ...

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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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