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You Can’t Always Get What You Want (but if you try some time, you might find … you get what you need)

A plan for a human mission to a near Earth object designed by engineers from Georgia Tech and the National Institute for Aerospace was posted online

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The Moon’s Role in Climate Science

A recent article about the role of global magnetic fields in the loss of planetary volatiles caught my attention.

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Volcanic Shields of the Moon

Come home with your shield, or on it – Spartan women to their husbands, marching off to war.

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Discarding Shuttle: The Hidden Cost

A symposium entitled “U.S. Human Spaceflight: Continuity and Stability” was held at Rice University’s James A. Baker Institute of Public Policy

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Vision statements for non-Visionaries

A seemingly trivial event has revealed some schadenfreude about NASA, along with a lot of irritation.

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Journey to the Center of the Moon

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HEFT, Lies and Videotape

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Regolith, The “Other” Lunar Resource

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Can we afford to return to the Moon?

We are almost at the end of a year that has seen major changes in our space program.

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New Light on the Lunar Poles

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A Founding Father of Lunar Science

I learned that a titan of lunar science passed away last month.

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Keeping an eye on NASA

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Can NASA Get Its Groove Back?

Remember when space exploration was “groovy” and excitement about seeing humans explore the Solar System within our lifetimes was palpable?

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Permafrost, Snow Cones and Fairy Castles

Although the discovery of ice on the Moon comes from a wide variety of different measurements, they are all “remote sensing.” 

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Strange Lunar Brew

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The Authorized Version

Fig. 1 Stereo view of the Apollo 15 landing site. See text for viewing instructions.

Look Ma! No Glasses!

A geologist uses topographic maps to measure slopes, depths, heights and the general shape of landforms.

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Building bridges

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The Moon: Creating Capability in Space and Getting Value for our Money

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The Incredible Shrinking Moon

Back in the 1970’s Paleolithic age of lunar studies, scientists were busy using images of the Moon in an attempt to understand lunar processes and history.

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