For its next phase, China plans to put rovers on the Moon to collect samples.
Clementine's radio beam was bounced off the moon to a receiving dish on earth.
Finally, add a nearly full harvest moon to exacerbate tidal effects In low lying areas.
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Craig turned provider in stoppage time when he dragged back for Kevin Moon to fire in a late winner.
Also on Monday, the United Nations nominated South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. secretary-general.
Family members of disappeared people in Sri Lanka have urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to intervene and help them find missing relatives.
Absolutely over the moon to say he's been sentenced to 23 years.
The exhibition in his honour, From the Moon to the Muckle Toon, was officially opened by David Stevenson - the second man to receive such an honour.
The group has announced seven multi-million-dollar prizes for achievements ranging from landing a robot on the moon to cleaning up an oil spill, and has awarded four prizes.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to U.S. President Barack Obama offering congratulations.
We can use our time on the moon to develop and test new approaches and technologies and systems that will allow us to function in other, more challenging, environments.
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As Laine explains in the video, an elevator from the surface of the Moon to a rendezvous point between the Earth and its satellite is actually possible using current technology.
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Between 1966 and 1967, NASA sent five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft to the moon to capture images before the arrival of Apollo 11, which landed on the lunar suface July 20, 1969.
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If China pulls a land grab, Bigelow says, America's only option will be to withdraw from the treaty as well and send its own personnel to the moon to start claiming American territory.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs has been appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to convene this new global network with the purpose to mobilize civil society, companies and universities to support and expand local problem solving.
"Needless to say, we are over the moon to have Terry Gou and Foxconn join us on our mission to scale GoPro into one of the great enabling companies of our time, " said GoPro Founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman.
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The goal of the project is to develop a detailed gravitational map of the Moon, which can then be compared to topographical maps on the Moon to build a picture of what the inside of the Moon is like.
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November also saw Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaee, write to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to complain about what he said were repeated US violations of Iranian airspace near the Bushehr power station, describing them as "illegal and provocative acts".
The behavioural economists reckon this may be because psychologists have focused on trying to link the moon to extreme behavioural problems in a few disturbed people, rather than to more humdrum lunacies affecting humanity as a whole, including a bias against shares around full moons.
When the villain, Pitch Black (also known as the Bogey Man) returns to snuff out belief in Santa and the other Guardians, Jack Frost is promoted by the Man in the Moon to the team of super hero Guardians whose primary job is to protect children.
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However, at the heart of the Lunar men's interests lay a driving curiosity in the workings of the natural world (fittingly, they had chosen the full moon to meet because it gave the most light as they stumbled home, drunk on fine ideas and clever talk).
Frances Harrison, author of the book Still Counting the Dead on the last months of the war, told the BBC "the only way now for Ban Ki-moon to restore the UN's tattered credibility on Sri Lanka is to call an independent international investigation into the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians in 2009".
The Director-General also informed the President about the new assignment given by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to UNESCO in the field of a new UN-systemwide science initiative for sustainability, in the wake of the High level Report on Global Sustainability, and the formation of a new Science Advisory Board, to be hosted and managed by UNESCO.
Last Wednesday, the Moon to Mars Commission set up by Mr Bush in January to look at how to achieve his vision of a return of astronauts to the moon followed by human exploration of Mars said in its report that NASA must thin its bureaucracy and involve the private sector as much as possible, in everything from earth-bound research to spacecraft launches.
NASA's new plans for a return to the moon manage to please a surprisingly large constituency.
While it may not sound as epic as a manned trip to the Moon or to Mars, the horizons for science and technology will be expanding in 2017.
One alternative to Ares, proposed by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, is to use modified versions of their existing Delta 4 and Atlas 5 rockets both to go to the moon and to resupply the space station, but at lower cost.
We need you to summon the same spirit of unbridled optimism, that bold willingness to tackle tough problems that led previous generations to meet the challenges of their time -- to power a nation from coast to coast, to touch the moon, to connect an entire world with our own science and imagination.
In May he joined with Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, to support the opening of a new National Flight Academy that will teach math and science to young people through an aviation-oriented camp.
The startup hopes to sell round-trip moon expeditions to foreign countries, research organizations and even some wealthy individuals.
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