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

TOPIC OF THE WEEK: OWNERSHIP OF THE MOON?

Last week, the Planetary Resources company was unveiled, with a plan to mine asteroids. While many have come up with similar ideas before, there really have never been plans that have been considered as throughly as the ones that Planetary Resources has been developing. ...

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Arts & Entertainment

"SAIL!" TO THE MOON? A LOOK AT AWOLNATION'S LUNAR LOVE

A great new band has been on the rise of late---AWOLNATION. And they’ve been bringing a lot of lunar love with them...and I do mean a lot! With a sound that I’d describe as “If David Bowie and Linkin Park threw a populist dance party together”, the project of Aaron Bruno has turned out an amazing album and lot of success as a result. I caught Bruno & Co. live in Eugene, OR a few ...

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Commercial Space

THE TOP FIVE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD GO TO THE MOON

With Ashton Kutcher now officially slated to be the 500th passenger on Virgin Galactic’s space tourism flights, it’s got me thinking about the true frontier in space lux travel...the Moon! While spending five minutes weightless in kind-of-space sounds fabulous, walking on the moon is the true adventurer’s dream. And it’ll be happening soon, at this rate. So, who should go? We’ll be debating the ...

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Student Opportunities

WHAT I AM?

hi this is Aakash Mishra from India, i am an engineering sophomore(mechanical), but greatly interested in astrophysics and cosmology. I am participating in nasa's third lunarbotics competition and i love discussion over these topics i.e i am here :)

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Lunar Science and Mission News

A SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE

The Institute's Dr. Paul Spudis recounts a recent, chilling argument over ice at the lunar poles. ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

THE EMERGING UEPS ( UNIFIED ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SYSTEM )

Unencumbered Amid an Infinite Expanse~~~ Impenetrable Depths ~~~ Spacesuits are the futuristic pinnacle of various streams of development in the area of human ....................................... ..................................................................................................................................................................................... ...

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Lunar Science and Mission News

FACING THE MOON

It has long been believed by scientists to be a pure coincidence that a single side of the Moon faces the Earth. However, recent research carried out by astronomers suggests that there is actually a reason for how things have turned out. You have likely noticed that the Moon always appears the same to us on the Earth. We only get to see one side of the Moon from the Earth. This is because the ...

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MyMoon Announcements

HI, I’M NEW

Hello, my name is Abhimat Gautam. I’m a new member of the MyMoon Street Team. I really love the Moon and astronomy. The Moon was what initially got me interested in looking beyond the surface of the Earth and appreciating the universe. I want to share some of the same appreciation and fascination that I have about the Moon with others, and I’m very excited about helping MyMoon. Right now, I’m ...

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The Moon in Culture

NAZIS ON THE MOON? A LOOK AT THE 2012 MOVIE “IRON SKY”

The Moon's seen giant robots, flies, and clones visit on screen as of late, but this year's visitors may top them all: Nazis! Yes, Nazis. Invading space Nazis, even. The movie we'll be seeing them in is “Iron Sky”, a slick sci-fi comedy out of Finland that's sure to have the sci-fi community up in a furor. Set in 2018, an American astronaut discovers that some Nazis escaped to space in 1945; ...

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The Moon in Culture

MOON CAUSED THE TITANIC TO SINK?

Recent research by astronomers David Olson and Russell Doescher has found a "supermoon" event coinciding closely with the Titanic's shipwreck. A supermoon occurs when the full Moon coincides with the perigee of the Lunar orbit, when the Moon comes closest to the Earth in its elliptical orbit, and subsequently exerts a greater force on the Earth. The full Moon also means that the Sun is ...

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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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