The lander Moon Express showed off Thursday is powered by compressed oxygen, for now, as Moon Express employees test it at a NASA facility in Mountain View, California.
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"It's quite likely that this moon will now join the ranks of Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa where you might have liquid water - and the biologists could start getting interested in this being a place were life might possibly arise, " enthused Dr Torrence Johnson, a Cassini scientist from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
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The city had consumed itself at a stroke: it was a disposable city that now followed the moon on its last voyage.
It was over this jagged, rusty territory that the moon now loomed, and the swaths of crumpled metal swelled as if carried on a high tide.
Thompson seems to relish in going on about how SpaceX has missed its schedule, yet fails to acknowledge slips of major government developments like the now defunct Constellation moon program and the fact that it was costing NASA an order of magnitude more money for a program that was falling many years behind schedule before it was finally cancelled.
Where once America could land a man on the moon, now it is reduced to sending WallE to Mars.
But they're back together now and our critic Tom Moon has been waiting for the reunion.
We all shouted, and the happiness at having found them again was already fraught with the pain of having lost them now forever, as the moon rising in the dark sky sent out only the reflections of the sun on its lakes and fields.
There aren't colonies on the Moon or Mars right now for a reason: the challenges and costs are huge.
But now, countries are exploring the moon because they believe it can be exploited and used to support the Earth's development.
President Bush's plans for a return to the moon in 2020, with a trip to Mars to follow, were all well and good, but now NASA has finally fleshed out the details of the moon visits, and it seems a permanent international moon base is in the cards.
Eris has a moon, and this too now has an official name: Dysnomia, the daughter of Eris known as the spirit of lawlessness.
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The US is not so clear about its intentions right now, but China landing on the Moon later this year and a resurgence of international interest in the Moon could change that.
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Now, Richards is the ringleader behind Odyssey Moon, a company formed on the Isle of Man to pursue commercial ventures on the moon.
The children of the moon landings have grown up: they now hold the positions of power to make their dreams come alive.
"We're better prepared for a journey to Mars now than we were when we sent men to the moon in the 1960s, " Zubrin told CNN.
After launching a lunar orbiter later this year, scientists will begin the process of choosing among several competing rover designs for exploring the Moon's geology and terrain, and now the first of these candidates has been unveiled for public consumption.
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It was colder than ever now, but the sky had cleared, and a bright moon had emerged from the clouds, cold and white in a pool of indigo sky right above the garden.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon praised its intervention in Mali, saying dialogue is not now possible with the rebels.
Conceptual artists in Houston and animators in Japan and South Korea are now at work on 26 half-hour episodes of Mutineer's Moon, based on a sci-fi pulp novel that Ledford and Greenfield read a decade ago.
Now Pell is back with a new start-up working on space exploration, Moon Express.
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By now, McDonald's has served 70 billion hamburgers, enough to reach to the moon and back 17 times over.
America's Moon shots were the symbol of its boundless quest for the future, but now politicians who talk about space risk mockery.
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