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In Moonbase Alpha, you assume the exciting role of an astronaut working to further human expansion and research. Returning from a research expedition, you witness a meteorite impact that cripples the life support capability of the settlement. With precious minutes ticking away, you and your team must repair and replace equipment in order to restore the oxygen production to the settlement.
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The goal of the Google Lunar X Prize is to put a privately funded robot lander on the moon in a 2011-to-2014 time frame. The first team to reach the goal will get a $20 million prize (if by the end of 2012) or a $15 million prize (if by the end of 2014). And it looks like there is at least one team ready to meet the challenge in a 2012 time frame…
If you are a fan of all things NASA, this video is absolutely fascinating. It is 30 seconds of real time from the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch, but it has been extended to over 8 minutes because it was shot at 500 frames per second. And it has a erudite narration that explains what [...]
Your goal in this game is to get a planet into a stable orbit around a sun. Having accomplished that, you can try to get a moon orbiting the planet around the sun: My solar System 2.0 One thing to note – in our solar system, the sun’s mass (2×10^30 kg) is gigagtic compared to [...]
You Asked: How did they film the moon landing? — Steph, Chicago, Ill. Marshall Brain Answers: When Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder of the Lunar Module to step onto the moon for the first time, there obviously wasn’t anyone standing on the moon to film him. So how did they get the TV images? [...]
Come join us at 1:00 p.m. Eastern today to see if Chris and I have recovered from the psychological damage we endured while covering the Apple iPad announcement last week. Today we’ll be talking about some mysterious botnet activity, rumored products from Microsoft and an obligatory segment on the aforementioned iPad. Plus you don’t want to miss our special effects extravaganza known as the Tweet of the Week!
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You have crash landed on the moon. What equipment should you take with you as you try to hike 200 miles back to base? The moon survival challenge Once you have the above items prioritized from most important to least important (from top to bottom), click the button below to see your score and compare [...]
There’s a lot of renewed pride and awe going around regarding the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, but what if we’d explored an alternate method of collecting lunar samples and bringing them back home? What if we’d just lobbed an atomic bomb at the old ball of cheese and simply scooped up the debris with a net?
How to Buy a Piece of the Moon (Some Restrictions Apply)
by Cristen Conger | July 20, 2009
Since planet Earth’s real estate forecast is a little grim these days, why not purchase a 1-acre plot of prime lunar territory? This isn’t some Apollo-11-anniversary offer from NASA. The private Lunar Embassy Corporation, as profiled in National Geographic, has sold off parcels moon turf to around 3.7 million people.
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