Article: Yorkshire scientists among team awaiting results from spacecraft with technology once thought stuff of science fiction Star Trek engines put Moon in reach

Article: Mission to Saturn's moon: a robotic spacecraft is ...
SuperScience;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... time." What is a MOON? A moon is a body that orbits, or circles ... Most planets have at least one moon. Earth and Pluto each have only one moon. Jupiter and Saturn, on the other hand, each have many moons. Often, moons are called ...

Article: Footprints on the moon Earth watches leaping ...
Belfast Telegraph;  March 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Here men from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon, July 1969 AD. We came ... Sunday afternoon gardener on earth. They set up on the moon instruments that will continue ... hazardous journey back to earth. Moon Walk QuizTry to answer these ...

Article: Flights of fancy? Did NASA fake its missions to the ...
Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication;  March 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... of lunar rock. Nothing on Earth is like moon rock, which has almost no ... both of which are common in Earth rock. Moon rock also has unique atomic ... supernovas--exploding stars. Moon rocks could not be created on Earth because no nuclear facility ...

Article: Earth to play peekaboo with full moon and sun; ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... only a part of Earth, depending on how the moon, Earth and sun line up. A lunar eclipse occurs only during a full moon, and only if Earth passes between the moon and the sun, with the moon passing through ...

Article: LUNAR MAGIC; MOON, EARTH AND COUPLES GET ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 22, 1999 ;     657 words ... ... Not only was the moon full, but at its closest point to Earth just hours after the ... farthest point from the Earth. With the big moon comes bigger than average ... 221,662 miles of Earth. At 9:31 a.m. today, the moon was to be at its fullest ...

Article: New Lunar Rock Ages Indicate Cataclysmic Meteorite Bombardment of ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  April 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... suggesting that the moon - and its nearby neighbor Earth - were bombarded by ... lack of evidence on Earth makes the analysis of moon rocks much more compelling ... that bombarded the moon likely struck our ... very old rocks on Earth because of our planet ...

Article: Coming soon! Eclipse of the moon. (Earth).
Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication;  April 11, 2003 ;     511 words ... ... the night of May 15. An eclipse of the moon occurs when Earth passes between the moon and the sun, blocking the sun's light ... around Earth is refracted (bent) into Earth's shadow and onto the moon. May will also give sky watchers in the ...