[Wednesday, November 7, 2007] JAXA and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking by the lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE).

[Thursday, November 8, 2007] Space exploration is about to enter a third age where nations will cooperate to explore the solar system.

[Tuesday, November 13, 2007] JAXA and NHK have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking of an Earth-rise* by the lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE).

[Tuesday, November 13, 2007] Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. showcased the new operational 18 meter near Earth Ka-band Antenna Network, the first in NASA history, during a ribbon cutting ceremony Nov. 8 at White Sands Complex, N.M.

[Wednesday, November 14, 2007] NASA will use the cold, harsh, isolated landscape of Antarctica to test one of its concepts for astronaut housing on the moon. The agency is sending a prototype inflatable habitat to Antarctica to see how it stands up during a year of use.

[Thursday, November 15, 2007] The goal of the TDU is to assemble the major components of a FSP system with a simulated nuclear heat source and conduct integrated system testing. FSP systems provide a potential option to support future human exploration missions on the Moon and Mars.

[Friday, November 16, 2007] Lunar Lander Project Office Industry Day Event Registration: The Lunar Lander Project Office (LLPO), within NASA's Constellation Program, will host an Industry Day on Thursday, December 13, 2007

[Friday, November 16, 2007] As Rosetta closed in on Earth, swung by and then left on its course again, several instruments on the spacecraft were busy taking snaps. As it swung away, the OSIRIS camera also caught glimpses of the Moon.

[Sunday, November 18, 2007] I had a chance to visit ILC Dover last week to see the new inflatable habitat that they have developed. Together, NASA, ILC Dover, and NSF will put this habitat through a one-year test at McMurdo Station in Antarctica starting in January 2008.

[Tuesday, November 20, 2007] New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that moons like Earth's - that formed out of tremendous collisions - are uncommon in the universe, arising at most in only 5 to 10 percent of planetary systems.

[Wednesday, November 21, 2007] JAXA carried out an observation using two onboard sensors of the Moon Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE,) the Terrain Camera (TC) and Multi-band Imager (MI,) on November 3, 2007, processed the acquired data, and confirmed they were functioning properly.

[Monday, November 26, 2007] This file photo released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Nov. 26, 2007 shows China's first picture of the moon captured by Chang'e-1, China's first lunar orbiter, marking the full success of its lunar probe project.

[Tuesday, November 27, 2007] Join the Challenger Center for Space Science Education for the NASA K-12 Engineering Design Challenge and design a plant growth chamber for use by future astronauts living and working on the Moon by November 30th.

[Thursday, November 29, 2007] For each individual recommendation in these two reports the committee assessed NASA's progress and assigned an academic-style grade, explained the rationale for the grade and trend, and offered recommendations for improvement.