July 2007 Top Stories
»» NASA Program Management Councill 23 May 2007: Lunar Lander Project
[Sunday, July 1, 2007] Lauri Hansen, Lunar Lander Project Manager, provided an overview and status of the Constellation Lunar Lander project top-level vision and project plan.
»» Apollo Lunar Lander Team to Share Lessons Learned With NASA
[Thursday, July 5, 2007] On July 20, the 38th anniversary of the first moon landing, NASA will host more than a dozen retired members of an engineering team that worked on the Apollo-era spacecraft that carried astronauts to the lunar surface.
»» Northrop Grumman Helps NASA Shape Plans for Affordable Lunar Lander
[Monday, July 9, 2007] The lunar lander that will carry NASA astronauts to the moon's surface by the end of the next decade will benefit from more than 50 years of technological change.
»» NASA Robots Practice Moon Survey in the Arctic Circle
[Friday, July 20, 2007] Two NASA robots are surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a crater in the Arctic Circle. The study will help scientists learn how robots could evaluate potential outposts on the moon or Mars.
»» Launch Postponement of the KAGUYA (SELENE)
[Monday, July 23, 2007] Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency would like to announce that we have decided to postpone the launch of the Lunar Orbit Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) by the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 13 (H-IIA F13.)
»» Killer electrons in space are now less mysterious
[Thursday, July 26, 2007] A rare, timely conjunction of ground-based instrumentation and a dozen satellites has helped scientists better understand how electrons in space can turn into 'killers'. ESA's Cluster constellation has contributed crucially to the finding.
»» Apollo Pioneers Share Lessons Learned (Transcript)
[Monday, July 30, 2007] As NASA embarks on a new journey back to the Moon, this time we hope to stay. We look to the past and lessons learned from the Apollo program to help ensure success.
