[Monday, June 2, 2008] On June 2, 2008, the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD), in cooperation with the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD), is releasing a Cooperative Agreement Notice soliciting proposals for the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI).

[Monday, June 2, 2008] Last week, 32 talented candidates gathered at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, with the hope of becoming part of a unique study that will act as a platform for human exploration of the Solar System.

[Tuesday, June 3, 2008] NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. invites reporters to participate in a special media day that will highlight NASA's upcoming Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission.

[Wednesday, June 4, 2008] Scientists working at NASA GSFC have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just take a little bit of carbon, throw in some epoxy, and add lots of lunar dust.

[Wednesday, June 4, 2008] NASA/GRC intends to contract with the Canadian Commercial Corporation and the Northern Centre for Advanced Technology to obtain mechanical lunar regolith simulant and lunar-compatible regolith excavation and handling technologies.

[Wednesday, June 4, 2008] A fanciful vision of a lunar traffic jam won the first annual NASA Lunar Art Contest sponsored by NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

[Friday, June 6, 2008] NASA conducted a discussion of a planned Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Lunar Surface Systems Concept Studies on June 6, 2008, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC.

[Sunday, June 8, 2008] NASA's Science Mission Directorate, in cooperation with the agency's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, recently issued a Cooperative Agreement Notice seeking research projects for the NASA Lunar Science Institute.

[Sunday, June 8, 2008] The X PRIZE Foundation today announced that the 2008 Lunar Lander Challenge will take place at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico, October 24-25, 2008.

[Wednesday, June 11, 2008] Space Adventures announced today that it has finalized an arrangement with FSA, to launch the first private mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2011.

[Friday, June 13, 2008] NASA has awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston, for the design, development and production of a new spacesuit system.

[Monday, June 16, 2008] If Luke could have put NASA's Chariot, ATHLETE, K-10 and the LSMS on the south ridge near his home on Tatooine, he could have joined the rebellion much sooner, avoided kissing his sister and even saved his father.

[Monday, June 16, 2008] We have studied the feasibility and scientific potential of zenith observing liquid mirror telescopes having 20 to 100 m diameters located on the moon.

[Monday, June 16, 2008] Conditions on the moon will be harsher, but prototype NASA robotic vehicles braved sand storms and unprecedented temperature swings this month on sand dunes near Moses Lake, Wash., to prepare for future lunar expeditions.

[Wednesday, June 18, 2008] Odyssey Moon, a commercial lunar enterprise, announced today that former NASA Associate Administrator Dr. Alan Stern has accepted a role with the Isle of Man-based company.

[Thursday, June 19, 2008] Moon buggies, stardust and space food are a few of the things visitors will learn about at the "NASA: 50 Years and Beyond" program during this summer's Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

[Saturday, June 21, 2008] NASA's Human Research Program and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, of Houston will fund a group of research proposals to help investigate questions about astronaut health and performance on future space exploration missions.

[Monday, June 23, 2008] NASA engineers and scientists completed a milestone review June 20 that will help determine the systems needed to return humans to the moon and establish a lunar outpost.

[Tuesday, June 24, 2008] Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully completed one of the most critical spacecraft environmental tests on NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) two months ahead of schedule.

[Thursday, June 26, 2008] Work by a team of English scientists reinforces an earlier suggestion that evidence of life on the early Earth might be found in meteorites on the moon.

[Friday, June 27, 2008] New medical equipment recently delivered to the Antarctic station Concordia will help understand how our bodies physically adapt to this extreme environment -- knowledge which could help prepare for a future human mission to Mars.