Missions
Test-Bed Rover is Now Stuck — Which is a Good Thing!
[/caption] Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have intentionally driven their engineering rover into soft soil in a sandbox testbed,…
Watch Live Webcast of Ulysses Spacecraft Switch-off
[/caption] UPDATE: Use this link to watch the webcast (the other one isn't working very well!) It's the spacecraft that…
Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations
[/caption] When your rover has abundant energy but can't go anywhere, what's a scientist to do? How about making observations…
LRO Successfully In Lunar Orbit; LCROSS Provides Flyby Video
[/caption] The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter fired its braking thrusters for 40 minutes early today, successfully inserting the spacecraft into orbit…
Watch Live Streaming Video From LCROSS Lunar Swingby Tuesday
[/caption] On Tuesday morning, the LCROSS spacecraft will fly by the Moon only 9,000 km above the lunar surface and…
LRO/LCROSS Ready for Launch to the Moon
[/caption] NASA is going back to the Moon today! The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and a piggyback mission called the…
Follow Apollo Mission “Tweets,” 40 Years Later
[/caption] This is just cool. Nature, the publishing group, is mixing the old with the new by "tweeting" the Apollo…
More Photos From the Lunar Time Machine
[/caption] More images have been released by the Lunar Orbiter Imagery Recovery Project (LOIRP), the endeavor that has been called…
LRO/LCROSS Gives Up Launch Date for STS-127
It's a crowded dance floor and someone had to step aside. Because of Saturday's launch delay for STS-127, the shuttle…
Kaguya Will Impact the Moon on June 10
[/caption] The Japanese lunar orbiter Kaguya will end its two-year mission with a controlled impact on the Moon's surface on…