Okay. It’s nice to know that people are at least THINKING about going around the moon again. It’s been awhile. We first sent men around the moon in 1968. The last time people were there was 1972. That’s quite a long time ago. The United States doesn’t even have PLANS to return to the moon. [...]

NASA instruments riding aboard an Indian lunar probe are giving us a new view of the moon: inside craters. Cold, dark craters—north and south The first pictures show craters at the lunar poles—both north and south. Scientists hope to find water ice inside. But the instruments are still being calibrated and prepared for a more [...]

The Augustine Commission is recommending cancellation of the Ares I rocket—which NASA spent hundreds of millions of dollars on as its future manned orbital launcher (for earth-orbital missions.) This is supposed to save money. Instead, that group advised NASA to alter and use an existing commercial rocket—developed by the employers of commission members—which is not [...]