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Autonomous Landing Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) System Under Development At NASA Will Enable Safe Landings In Locations Apollo Never Could Have Gone; Terrain Relative Navigation System Utilizes 3 Sensors (Optical, Lidar, Laser Altimeter) & Stored Data To Determine Lander Position & Velocity; Hazard Detection System Generates DEM With 10-cm Resolution
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American Astronaut Marsha Ivins Speaks To Students About Benefits / Importance Of Space Travel At Nehru Planetarium In Mumbai India; “Traveling Again To The Moon Is The Right Thing To Do”; Says Image Of Milky Way Galaxy Provides Her With Inspiration / Commitment To Support Space Exploration; Ivins Spent 55 Days In Space During 36-Year NASA Career That Included 5 Spaceflights
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John Young, Charlie Duke Are Only 2 Humans To Ever Walk On Lunar Highlands, Spent 3 Days On Lunar Surface, Logged 26.7km On Lunar Rover, Returned 95.8kg Of Samples, Deployed First Observatory On Moon; 40 Years Later, Next Frontier Of Lunar Exploration Is Similarly Challenging Environment: Mountainous South Pole; Commander Young Now Serves As Honorary Director Of ILOA
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Using Unprecedented High-Resolution Topography Data From LRO LOLA Instrument, NASA Animator Ernie Wright Reconstructs “Most Influential Environmental Photo Ever Taken” For Earth Day; New Video Includes Original Audio Recording Of Apollo 8 Astronauts; ILOA / Galaxy Forum Suggests Next Culturally-Transformative Image Will Also Be Taken From Moon, Looking Out At Our Expansive Milky Way Home
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Dana Hurley, Planetary Scientist & Co-I On LRO LAMP, Will Present Research On Distribution & Composition Of Volatiles In Lunar Polar Regions At JHU APL On 24 Apr; Combining Data From Neutron Spectroscopy, Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Radar & Impact Ejecta Analysis, Provides A Multi-Dimensional View Of Permanently-Shadowed Regions Of Moon; Surface Frost Becomes Homogenized Within 20 Myr
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More Than 500 High School & University Students From 20 US States & 6 Countries Will Participate In The 19th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, April 13-14, In Huntsville AL; Teams Of 6 Students Will Assemble / Race Human-Powered, Collapsible “Proof-Of-Concept” Rovers They Designed, Over 0.8km Lunar-Simulated Course; 3 Teams In Each Division With Fastest Times Win Prizes
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Gemini Program May Be More Efficient Model For Human Lunar Return Than Apollo; Many People In NASA Including Captain Pete Conrad & Lunar Orbit Rendezvous Inventor John Houbolt Argued For Lunar Gemini Program Over Apollo; SpaceX Dragon Capsule Has Been Compared To Gemini; Small Lunar Lander Design For Lunar Gemini (TL) Similar To ALOHA Chair (BL) Conceived By SpaceDev / Benson Space Company For ILO Human Service Mission
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New Polaris Lunar Rover Will Prospect For Water Ice, Methane & Other Resources At Moon North Pole; Solar Powered Astrobotic Robot Will Launch Aboard Falcon 9 Rocket NET 2015, Spend 12 Days Exploring, Carry 80kg Of Payload Including Drill, Instruments To Analyze Samples, Neutron Spectrometer & Infrared Spectrometer To Search For Signs Of Ice; Design Adapted From Lunar Excavation Machine Astrobotic Prototyping Under 2010 NASA Contract
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“NASA Has No Vision Of Establishing Colony On Moon”, But Countless Commercial Enterprises Do, Says NASA Administrator Charles Bolden; Proposal Of Rand Simberg (BR) For US Courts & Agencies To Recognize Private Claims On Moon, Mars & Asteroids Could Be Effective Motivator For Private Investment In Space Development; Simberg Presenting His White Paper Today On Capitol Hill, Washington DC
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2 4-Camera Color Video Systems Of GRAIL MoonKAM Begin Generating Video Views Of Moon Surface From Low Lunar Orbit; Thousands Of Students Have Opportunity To Capture Video / Images, Study Lunar Features & Learn About Past / Future Landing Sites; LRO Recently Provided Clearest View Yet Of Famous Apollo 11 Landing Site; Image (R) Snapped From 24-Km Altitude Displays Footprints, Lunar Module, Seismic Experiment, Lunar Ranging Reflector