Landing spot ‘centre for Moon tourism’
SBS
“Take only pictures, leave only footprints” is the message to visitors at many beauty spots. One place you won’t see it, though, will be at the first extraterrestrial national park, perhaps set up to preserve the spot on the moon where Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their giant leap for mankind.
PANELISTS:
Bruce Pitman: President, Silicon Valley Space Club; Founding Member, Alliance for Commercial Enterprise in Space (Moderator)
Robert Kelso – Manager, Commercial Space Development, NASA JSC
Dennis Wingo – Founder, Skycorp, Inc.; CTO, Orbital Recovery Corporation
Tom Taylor – Vice President, Lunar Transportation Systems
GLXP PRESS RELEASE
A study performed by the Futron Corporation, an aerospace consultancy based in Bethesda, MD, predicts that companies such as those competing for the Google Lunar X PRIZE will be able to address a market in excess of $1 billion over the course of the next decade.
PSI MISSION UPDATE
June 26, 2009
Robert C. Reedy, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, is mapping the moon’s surface elements using data gathered by an advanced gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS) that rode aboard the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft.
PRESS RELEASE
Today, Team Part-Time-Scientists announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition, marking Germany’s debut in this new race to the moon. The team joins the $30 million contest that challenges space professionals and engineers
from across the globe to build and launch a privately funded spacecraft to the moon. The spacecraft must complete a series of exploration and transmission tasks as outlined in the competition’s official rules. Team Part-Time-Scientists, headquartered in Berlin, Germany has seven team members and is among 19 teams from 42 countries that are competing for their share of the multimillion dollar prize purse.
The Space Review this week includes reports on Spaceport America, NASA’s Constellation program, and the military’s spy satellite effort.
Moon blanket could protect lunar colony
Cosmos Magazine
The first astronauts to return to the Moon could be shielded from cosmic and solar radiation with a flexible covering designed by university students.
K10 overlooking the Base Camp
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NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA robots soon will begin exploring the dusty, rocky terrain of a barren desert on Earth much like the moon. Scientists and engineers will study the images and information the robots gather to help plan where humans should venture next.
China may set up moon base camp by 2030
China Daily
In a roadmap for the development of China’s space technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said that China’s manned spacecraft could also launch from a moon base to explore further planets in 2050.
ASTRIUM PRESS RELEASE
Astrium, Europe’s leading space company, has been commissioned by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) to conduct a study for the testing of future moon landings. The aim is to prove the technological feasibility of a soft and precise robotic landing on the moon.
