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U.S. Losing Its Lead In Space, Experts Warn Congress

McClatchy | Robert S. Boyd | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.19.2009 | Technology

Read More: Space Foundation, Aeronautics, Nasa, Spacewalk, North Korea, u.s. Space Race, Moon, Iran, Rocket-Launcher, Space Race, China, Space and Aeronautics, Technology News

America's once clear dominance in space is eroding as other nations, including China, Iran and North Korea, step up their activities, a panel of exper...

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Last Call to be World Leader

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology

Read More: Buzz Aldrin, Einstein, Cia, M.C. Hammer, Apollo, Sputnik, Kitty Hawk, Nasa, Global Trends 2025, Exobiology, Mr. Spock, Afghanistan, Moon, Boeing Company, Dod, Aromabar, Kaguya, Michener, Klare, Technology News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Let America marshal its vast resources in the self-interested pursuit of innovation and science in space for the greatness of a nation and the benefit of the world.

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Mass Wedding: Moon Marries Thousands Of Couples In Global Wedding (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Moon, Mass Wedding, South Korea, Unification Church, Rev. Moon, Rev. Moon Hyung-Jin, Home News

ASAN, South Korea — Brides in white gowns and Japanese kimonos joined grooms in black suits and red ties Wednesday for the Unification Church's biggest mass wedding in a decade – a spectacle church officials say involves 40,000 people around the world.

The "blessing ceremony" is the church's largest since 1999, and may well be the last on such a grand scale officiated by the 89-year-old Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial founder of the Unification Church.

Nearly a half-century after arranging the marriages of 24 couples in his first mass wedding, Moon offered blessings Wednesday for more than 20,000 people gathered at Sun Moon University, the school he founded in Asan, south of Seoul.

About half are marrying for the first time, some in marriages arranged by Moon himself; the rest are renewing their wedding vows. Twenty-thousand others are expected to watch via Internet broadcast at simultaneous ceremonies taking place from Sweden to Brazil.

The mass wedding comes as Moon is moving to hand day-to-day leadership over to his children. On Wednesday, the Rev. Moon Hyung-jin, the 30-year-old son tapped to take over religious leadership, opened the ceremony at the flower-festooned altar.

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A Different Kind of Moon Race

Buzz Aldrin | Posted 10.12.2009 | Technology

Read More: Mike Collins, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Nasa, Moon Landing, Moon, Space Exploration, Lunar Landing, Technology News
Buzz Aldrin

A quarter of a million miles from where you are reading these words, on the dusty surface of our companion Moon, lies the best chance in decades for America to reestablish itself as a global space leader.

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Help Save the Moon

Amy Ephron | Posted 10.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Help Save the Moon, Shock and Awe, Nasa, Moon, Bombing-the-Moon, Astronomy, Astronauts, Lunar Explosion, Celestial Explosion, Comedy News
Amy Ephron

On Friday, NASA is planning to crash into the moon. I'm just wondering: who gave them permission to crash into the moon?

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NASA To Bomb The Moon (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology

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*See photos below* NASA is launching a dramatic mission to bomb the moon. The LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission will se...

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Beleaguered Indian Space Research Gathers Star Dust

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 09.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Chandrayaan 1, Nasa, Moon, Dr Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Space Research Organisation, Isro, Technology News
Pinaki Bhattacharya

Whether the new space race between India and China is as absorbing as the previous edition will depend on the successes notched by probes like the Chandrayaan 1, and its follower, Chandrayaan 2.

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Gold Rush on the Moon

Peter Diamandis | Posted 09.27.2009 | Technology

Read More: Nasa, Moon, Gold Rush, Lunar, Water-on-Moon, Google Lunar X Prize, Technology News
Peter Diamandis

From an economic point of view, water on the Moon is the equivalent of finding "gold in the hills of California." There is the potential for a California gold rush to hit the space community in the years ahead.

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Moon Water: Probes Find H20 Traces In Dirt

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

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The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen.

Three different space probes found the chemical signature of water all over the moon's surface, surprising the scientists who at first doubted the unexpected measurement until it was confirmed independently and repeatedly.

It's not enough moisture to foster homegrown life on the moon. But if processed in mass quantities, it might provide resources – drinking water and rocket fuel – for future moon-dwellers, scientists say. The water comes and goes during the lunar day.

It's not a lot of water. If you took a two-liter soda bottle of lunar dirt, there would probably be a medicine dropperful of water in it, said University of Maryland astronomer Jessica Sunshine, one of the scientists who discovered the water. Another way to think of it is if you want a drink of water, it would take a baseball diamond's worth of dirt, said team leader Carle Pieters of Brown University.

"It's sort of just sticking on the surface," Sunshine said. "We always think of the moon as dead and this is sort of a dynamic process that's going on."

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'Moon Rock' Displayed In Dutch Museum Is Really Petrified Wood

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

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AMSTERDAM — It's not green cheese, but it might as well be. The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock ...

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Weighing In On Blue-Ribbon Panel Exploring NASA's Strategic Options for Human Space Flight

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mars, Human Space Flight, Nasa, Moon, Politics News
Jeff Goldstein

Something as challenging and expensive as a human space flight program needs a strategic objective that derives from who we are as a species of explorers, not the destination flavor of the month.

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Liz Cheney: Birther of Crazier Conspiracies

Warren Holstein | Posted 08.24.2009 | Comedy

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Warren Holstein

Dick's progeny didn't fall far from the gnarled, twisted tree. Liz Cheney has unfurled her writhing power-hungry roots, burrowing deep beneath the dirt filled with assorted creepy crawlies to feed her political prospects.

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Another '60s Anniversary: The Ur-Action Blockbuster Goldfinger

William Bradley | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment

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William Bradley

Though Goldfinger looks almost sedate compared to today's jittery, mashed-up action pictures, editor Peter Hunt's work 45 years ago, emphasizing fast hard cuts, was an innovation.

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Solar Eclipse on July 22

news.nationalgeographic.com | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

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A total solar eclipse passing over some of Earth's most densely populated regions on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, may become the most viewed eclipse ever...

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Is NASA Spacing Out?

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Nasa, Research, Michael Collins, Climate Change, Space, Apollo Missions, Apollo 11, Science, Astronauts, Moon, Alan Bean, Green News
Bill Chameides

Today is the 40th anniversary of the first lunar walk, and, not counting the late Michael Jackson, it's been almost that long since the last moonwalk. Is it time to do it again?

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Dennis Hope: Nevada Man Claims Ownership Of The Moon, Challenges UN

Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

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Despite the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that was ratified by 98 United Nations states, including the US, and declared that the moon may not be claimed by ...

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Apollo 11 Politiku

Susanna Speier | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles J. Pellerin, Fraser Thomson, Richard Speier, Bob Fish, Rod Pyle, Tara-Gray-Burkholder, Lunar Landing, Collins, Von Braun, Neil Armstrong, Nasa, Moon, Apollo 11, Robots, 40th Anniversary, Eagle, Aldrin, Astronaut, Hornet, Sam Saltoun, Ellen Briggs Stansell, Jerome Coopersmith, Ralph Dannheisser, Karen Goldner, Irene Cullen Gravina, Randi Cecchine, Jacqueline Church Simonds, V. Alison Taylor, Michael O'Brien, Politics News
Susanna Speier

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11's moon landing, individuals with NASA affiliations that range from astronaut to intern condensed the seminal event into 17 syllable historiographies.

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Walter Cronkite: When He Wasn't 'The Most Trusted Man in America'

Dan Dubno | Posted 08.18.2009 | Media

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Dan Dubno

As we mourn "the most trusted man in America" we also mourn the kind of television news that no longer exists. Today, the job he perfected has largely lost its relevance.

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New Moon Footage: NASA Releases Remastered Moon Landing Footage (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Humans in Space, Moon Landing, Space Travel, Nasa, The Moon, Space, 40th Anniversary Moon Landing, New Moon Footage, Moon, The Stars, Green News

UPDATED 7/16: The enhanced footage of the 1969 moonwalk has been released by NASA. Watch the video: As part of NASA's 40th anniversary celebratio...

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The Year of the Moon

Eric Lurio | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Nasa, Space Mission, Spaceship, Moon, Moon Images, Apollo 11, Lunar, Spacecraft, Lunar Orbiter, World News
Eric Lurio

Tomorrow is the anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on our Moon. In another ten years, most of the people involved with it will be dead.

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PHOTOS: Lunar Orbiter Releases First Photos Of Moon

Huffington Post | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which launched on June 18, just released its first images of the moon's pockmarked terrain. The Orbiter c...

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It's June 1969, Less Than 3 Weeks from the First Landing on the Moon. Where Were You During the Flight of Apollo 11?

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Moon Landing, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Moon, Michael Collins, Lunar Landing, Apollo 11, 40th Anniversary, July 20 1969, Living News
Jeff Goldstein

I have assembled an extensive list of resources and links to help you celebrate with friends and family, and follow the flight -- in real time -- as it happened 40 years ago.

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Japanese "Kaguya" Satellite Crashes Into The Moon, Send Back Final Footage (VIDEO)

Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Space Video, Video, Space, Kaguya Satellite, Science, Japanese Satellite Crash Video, Moon, Kaguya Crash Video, World News

***UPDATE*** Readers have pointed out that this is a rendered video reconstructing in 3-D, based on the observation date the satellite sent back minut...

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Yesterday's Launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Brings Back Memories of Apollo 11

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Nasa, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, National Air and Space Museum, Michael Collins, Apollo 11, Moon, Smithsonian, July 20 1969, 40th Anniversary, Lunar, Lro, Living News
Jeff Goldstein

July 20th is coming. It will be the 40th anniversary of the first human footprints on another world, and I lived it.

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Dear Media: Please Stop Reporting About Science

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Nasa, Bad Journalism, Science Journalism, The Rachel Maddow Show, Bbc, Moon, Science, Lunar, Media News
Jacob Dickerman

There's nothing special about the moon. If it didn't exist, life on this planet would be largely the same,

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