http://www.mail.com/subjects/4190-moon.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/4190-moon.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2087764-cyprus-moon-rock-40-years.html NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus may finally get its piece of the moon. Some 40 years ago, the Mediterranean island nation was supposed to receive a 1.1 gram piece of moon rock from the United States. The rock was one of 270 such lunar samples U.S. astronauts brought back from Apollo moon missions in 1969 and 1972 that the Nixon administration gave as gifts ... Wed, 15 May 2013 16:57:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2087764-cyprus-moon-rock-40-years.html 2013-05-15T16:57:13Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2020258-israeli-high-tech-pioneer-efraim-arazi-dies.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Efraim "Efi" Arazi, a pioneer of Israel's powerful high-tech industry who helped develop technology that allowed for a video recording of the first moon landing, has died. He was 76. Arazi founded three groundbreaking high-tech firms, Scitex, Electronics for Imaging, and iMedia, each specializing in aspects of digital photography or video... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:43:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2020258-israeli-high-tech-pioneer-efraim-arazi-dies.html 2013-04-15T11:43:28Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1968128-amazon-ceo-recovers-apollo-engines-atlantic.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rusted pieces of two Apollo-era rocket engines that helped boost astronauts to the moon have been fished out of the murky depths of the Atlantic, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and NASA said Wednesday. A privately funded expedition led by Bezos raised the main engine parts during three weeks at sea and was headed back to Cape Canaveral, Fla.... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:45:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1968128-amazon-ceo-recovers-apollo-engines-atlantic.html 2013-03-20T23:45:32Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1965406-nasa-moon-craft-spots-ebb-flow-crash-sites.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — When NASA's twin spacecraft Ebb and Flow crashed into the moon last year, scientists did not count on seeing the aftermath. On Tuesday, the space agency released before-and-after pictures of the lunar north pole where Ebb and Flow came to rest. Months after the back-to-back, mission-ending dives, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter flew ov... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:34:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1965406-nasa-moon-craft-spots-ebb-flow-crash-sites.html 2013-03-19T20:34:23Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1915266-house-votes-to-rename-flight-center-armstrong.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a bill to rename a NASA flight center in California for the late astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. The measure, which passed on a 394-0 vote, would rename the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center. Armstrong, who died in 20... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:13:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1915266-house-votes-to-rename-flight-center-armstrong.html 2013-02-26T00:13:29Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1903620-smallest-planet-yet-solar-system.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Astronomers searching for planets outside our solar system have discovered the tiniest one yet — one that's about the size of our moon. But hunters for life in the universe will need to poke elsewhere. The new world orbits too close to its sun-like star and is too sizzling to support life. Its surface temperature is an estimated 700 de... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:38:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1903620-smallest-planet-yet-solar-system.html 2013-02-20T18:38:53Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1844372-nasa-testing-vintage-engine-apollo-11-rocket.html HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things eventually come back around. At NASA, that means looking to the Apollo program for ideas on how to develop the next generation of rockets for future missions to the moon and beyond. Young engineers who weren't even born when the last Saturn V rocket took off for the moon are testing a... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1844372-nasa-testing-vintage-engine-apollo-11-rocket.html 2013-01-25T08:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1815074-ex-nasa-manned-spaceflight-director-holmes-dies.html MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Dyer Brainerd Holmes, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, has died. Holmes' stepson, Pierce Ledbetter, said Holmes died at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis on Friday at age 91. Holmes died from complications from pneumonia, Ledbetter said. Holm... Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1815074-ex-nasa-manned-spaceflight-director-holmes-dies.html 2013-01-12T00:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1777428-final-goodbye-roll-call-who-died-2012.html Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables who died in 2012 created images in our minds that remained unchanged over decades. Sadly, for others an established image was shattered by a fall from grace. Whitney Houston ruled as a queen of pop music, but ... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1777428-final-goodbye-roll-call-who-died-2012.html 2012-12-19T20:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1771130-nasa-names-moon-crash-site-honor-sally-ride.html PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A pair of NASA spacecraft crashed into a mountain near the moon's north pole on Monday, bringing a deliberate end to a mission that peered into the lunar interior. Engineers commanded the twin spacecraft, Ebb and Flow, to fire their engines and burn their remaining fuel. Ebb plunged first followed by Flow about 30 seconds later. Af... Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1771130-nasa-names-moon-crash-site-honor-sally-ride.html 2012-12-18T00:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1764824-twin-nasa-spacecraft-prepare-to-crash-moon.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — After nearly a year circling the moon, NASA's Ebb and Flow will meet their demise when they crash — on purpose — into the lunar surface. Just don't expect to see celestial fireworks. Next week's impact near the moon's north pole by the washing machine-sized spacecraft won't carve a gaping crater or kick up a lot of debris. And it'll be ... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:00:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1764824-twin-nasa-spacecraft-prepare-to-crash-moon.html 2012-12-13T20:00:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1749852-alaska-reclaims-missing-moon-rocks-1973.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A display of moon rocks that disappeared from an Alaska museum after an arson fire nearly four decades ago has been returned to the state following the settlement of a lawsuit by a man who claimed he rescued the rocks from the rubble. State and federal officials at a news conference Thursday displayed the returned relic — tiny moo... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1749852-alaska-reclaims-missing-moon-rocks-1973.html 2012-12-07T00:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1748832-to-moon-firm-hopes-to-sell-15-billion-trips.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Attention wealthy nations and billionaires: A team of former NASA executives will fly you to the moon in an out-of-this-world commercial venture combining the wizardry of Apollo and the marketing of Apple. For a mere $1.5 billion, the business is offering countries the chance to send two people to the moon and back, either for research o... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1748832-to-moon-firm-hopes-to-sell-15-billion-trips.html 2012-12-06T22:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1745386-surface-moon-reveals-shattered-history.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — The moon took quite a beating in its early days, more than previously believed, scientists reported Wednesday. This surprising new view of the moon comes from detailed gravity mapping by twin NASA spacecraft, which slipped into orbit around the celestial body earlier this year to peer into the interior. Researchers have long known that ... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1745386-surface-moon-reveals-shattered-history.html 2012-12-05T17:57:00Z