[Friday, February 2, 2007] NASA's unmanned Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, will strike the moon near its south pole in January 2009. It will search for water and other materials that astronauts could use at a future lunar outpost.

[Saturday, February 10, 2007] NASA/ARC has a requirement for support for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Mission and the development of future mission concepts.

[Monday, February 12, 2007] The Planetary Society, in conjunction with The Planetary Society of Japan and JAXA, urges romantics worldwide to "Wish Upon the Moon" for their valentines, sending names and messages on Japan's SELENE mission.

[Tuesday, February 13, 2007] The AIAA SCTC has developed a position statement which recommends specific research, development, technology and engineering goals be implemented in order to establish a Moon base by 2015 and open new frontiers to human space exploration.

[Tuesday, February 13, 2007] Space suits for astronauts may get a new and better design following a University of Houston doctoral student's locomotion stability research. Melissa Scott-Pandorf is a Fellow of the Texas Space Grant Consortium.

[Friday, February 16, 2007] Future astronauts will learn what it will take to some day drive on the surface of the moon. NASA is looking for the world's best moonbuggy drivers who can also create and build their own original "lunar rover."

[Saturday, February 17, 2007] If you woke up tomorrow morning and found yourself on the moon, what would you do? NASA has just released a list of 181 good ideas.

[Sunday, February 18, 2007] The lunar surface has historically been considered an optimal site for a broad range of astronomical telescopes. That assumption, which has come to be somewhat reflexive, is critically examined in this paper and found to be poorly substantiated.

[Tuesday, February 20, 2007] Astronauts on lunar and Mars missions will need to continually assess their radiation risk and exposure. The faculty and midshipmen at the USNA are developing a small device to do exactly that, as well as alert crews during high-radiation events.

[Monday, February 26, 2007] If Earth had a mountain so incredibly high that its peak poked through the outermost layer of our atmosphere, mountain climbers smart enough and hardy enough to reach the top would have some idea what it will be like to be camped on the moon.

[Monday, February 26, 2007] ESA will soon invite the scientific community to propose the first missions for Cosmic Vision 2015-2025. The first medium-class mission should be launched during the 2016-2017 at the latest. The first large mission is targeted to launch in autumn 2018.