[Monday, December 1, 2008] NASA will recognize Armadillo Aerospace, the winner of the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, during a ceremony at 10 a.m. on Dec. 5 at NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street, SW, Washington.

[Tuesday, December 2, 2008] Manipulation of the visual perspective, in combination with the receipt of correlated multisensory information from the body was sufficient to trigger the illusion that another person's body or an artificial body was one's own.

[Wednesday, December 3, 2008] Join Challenger Center for Space Science Education for a live interactive webcast, Wednesday, December 10th at 2:00pm ET with Dr. Barbara A. Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

[Wednesday, December 3, 2008] Goodyear and the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) recently completed a jointly-funded project for the development and production of twelve replicates of the original wire-mesh moon tire used on the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle in the early 1970s.

[Thursday, December 11, 2008] The X PRIZE Foundation will reveal the identities of a "Mystery Team" competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE during a media briefing hosted at NASA's Ames Research Center on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008.

[Monday, December 15, 2008] NASA/ARC plans to issue a RFP for the following Commercial item/services: Spacecraft Propulsion System for LADEE. NASA intends to utilize a phased acquisition approach using progressive competition down-selection procedures.

[Monday, December 15, 2008] A team led by MIT researchers releases today the most comprehensive independent review of the future of the nation's human spaceflight program undertaken in many years.

[Tuesday, December 16, 2008] Two new international teams in the Google Lunar X PRIZ were announced today in a tele-press conference from Google Headquarters.

[Tuesday, December 16, 2008] NASA has released a draft request for proposals, or RFP, to seek industry support for the design of its Altair lunar lander vehicle, part of NASA's Constellation Program.

[Wednesday, December 17, 2008] Based in the United States, the Next Giant Leap (NGL) team boasts highly qualified members from the academic, aerospace and small business communities.

[Thursday, December 18, 2008] Raytheon Company has received confirmation from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization that a water-detecting sensor system on the Chandrayaan-1 lunar-orbiting spacecraft has been activated and is fully functional.

[Monday, December 22, 2008] NASA Television will honor the 40th anniversary of the historic Christmas Eve broadcast by the Apollo 8 crew with special programming Dec. 24 and 25 on the NASA TV Public Channel (101).

[Monday, December 22, 2008] NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space LRO will experience after launch.

[Tuesday, December 30, 2008] The ALHAT system is designed to automatically detect hazards such as craters and boulders and then direct the lander to the safest touchdown location available. It is a job ALHAT must perform - on-the-fly.

[Tuesday, December 30, 2008] Apollo crews were heavily trained to recognize specific large-scale lunar surface features at or near the designated landing site. These features would help the astronauts find their way to a safe area as close to the planned landing site as possible.