NASA's Final Apollo Missions: The Last Footsteps on the Moon
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A large meteorite hit the area four thousand million years ago. The force of the crash spread material from deep inside the moon. Scientists wanted to study ...
Showing posts with label Moon rocks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moon rocks. Show all posts
19 July 2009
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News- Dr Randy Korotev in Meteorite News 19JUL09
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Korotev's career of studying moon rocks took him to the deserts of Antarctica, where scientists have discovered most lunar meteorites. ...
18 July 2009
Moon Meteorite News- Moon Rocks Yield Information 40 Years Later 18JUL09
- Washington, July 18 : There are still many secrets waiting to be gleaned from moon rocks collected by Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago.New Kerala - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
- Washington, July 18 : A lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) has determined that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago.New Kerala - 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
- A lunar geochemist says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago July 20.Science Daily - Jul 17 10:29 PM
- A lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago July 20.Newswise - Jul 17 11:33 AM
- Image 1: Small rock fragments from the lunar "soil" collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969. The background grid spacing is 2 mm. Photo by Randy KorotevImage 2: Researchers in WUSTL's Laboratory for Space Sciences in Arts & Sciences have a long tradition of being among the first in the world to receive samples from a NASA mission. In this photo taken in 1969, the late Robert M. Walker, ...redOrbit - Jul 17 11:27 AM
- Carleton Moore was alone in the Arizona State University laboratory the night he placed the first material collected from the moon into a testing apparatus.12 News Phoenix - Jul 17 11:03 AM
27 June 2009
Meteorite News- NASA to Open Moon Vault 27JUN09
NASA GIVES MEDIA, PUBLIC LOOK INSIDE APOLLO MOON ROCK VAULT
HOUSTON -- NASA will offer reporters an unprecedented chance to
conduct interviews with scientists inside the lab that stores moon
rocks Apollo astronauts collected during their six missions. The July
2 interview opportunities from the Apollo Lunar Sample Processing Lab
and Storage Vaults at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will
take place nearly 40 years after humans first walked on the moon.
Using the NASA Television's Live Interview Media Outlet satellite
channel, news organizations will have a chance to talk with
scientists who study the lunar samples. The interviews will originate
from inside the lunar sample vault, amid the trays of moon rocks and
soil samples. Among the samples are those Apollo 11 astronauts Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin brought back to Earth in July 1969.
Live interview opportunities will be available from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.
and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. CDT with lunar sample scientists Gary Lofgren
and Andrea Mosie. Lofgren is the lunar curator at Johnson and has
been with the lab since the Apollo era. Mosie has been a scientist in
the current lab since it opened in 1979.
To participate in the interviews, journalists should contact Victor
Scott at 281-483-4942 or victor.j.scott@nasa.gov no later than noon,
July 1.
The public also will have an opportunity to take a virtual tour of the
lunar sample lab and ask the scientists questions via Ustream and
Twitter from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. The public can submit questions to
Johnson's Twitter account, @NASA_Johnson, beginning today and via
Ustream live during the event. The tour and the question-and-answer
session also will be broadcast live on NASA TV.
To view the live broadcast on Ustream and submit questions, visit:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-live
Between 1969 and 1972, six Apollo spaceflight missions brought back
842 pounds and 22,000 separate samples of lunar rocks, core samples,
pebbles, sand and dust from the lunar surface. The majority of the
samples are stored at the Apollo Lunar Sample Processing Lab and
Storage Vaults at Johnson, with a small subset held at the White
Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. The samples continue to be studied
by scientists around the world. The work has provided invaluable
knowledge as NASA prepares to return to the moon.
The NASA Live Interview Media Outlet satellite channel will be used
for the event. The channel is a digital satellite C-band downlink by
uplink provider Americom. It is on satellite AMC 6, transponder 5C,
located at 72 degrees west, downlink frequency 3785.5 Mhz based on a
standard C-band 5150 Mhz L.O., vertical polarity, FEC is 3/4, data
rate is 6.00 Mhz, symbol rate is 4.3404 Mbaud, transmission DVB,
minimum Eb/N0 is 6.0 dB. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and
schedule information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the Apollo lunar samples and lab, visit:
http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/index.cfm
NASA is planning a number of activities and events in 2009 as the 40th
anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20 approaches. The
events will celebrate the Apollo Program, its accomplishments, and
the benefits to our lives today. For more information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/apollo40th
HOUSTON -- NASA will offer reporters an unprecedented chance to
conduct interviews with scientists inside the lab that stores moon
rocks Apollo astronauts collected during their six missions. The July
2 interview opportunities from the Apollo Lunar Sample Processing Lab
and Storage Vaults at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will
take place nearly 40 years after humans first walked on the moon.
Using the NASA Television's Live Interview Media Outlet satellite
channel, news organizations will have a chance to talk with
scientists who study the lunar samples. The interviews will originate
from inside the lunar sample vault, amid the trays of moon rocks and
soil samples. Among the samples are those Apollo 11 astronauts Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin brought back to Earth in July 1969.
Live interview opportunities will be available from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.
and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. CDT with lunar sample scientists Gary Lofgren
and Andrea Mosie. Lofgren is the lunar curator at Johnson and has
been with the lab since the Apollo era. Mosie has been a scientist in
the current lab since it opened in 1979.
To participate in the interviews, journalists should contact Victor
Scott at 281-483-4942 or victor.j.scott@nasa.gov no later than noon,
July 1.
The public also will have an opportunity to take a virtual tour of the
lunar sample lab and ask the scientists questions via Ustream and
Twitter from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. The public can submit questions to
Johnson's Twitter account, @NASA_Johnson, beginning today and via
Ustream live during the event. The tour and the question-and-answer
session also will be broadcast live on NASA TV.
To view the live broadcast on Ustream and submit questions, visit:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-live
Between 1969 and 1972, six Apollo spaceflight missions brought back
842 pounds and 22,000 separate samples of lunar rocks, core samples,
pebbles, sand and dust from the lunar surface. The majority of the
samples are stored at the Apollo Lunar Sample Processing Lab and
Storage Vaults at Johnson, with a small subset held at the White
Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. The samples continue to be studied
by scientists around the world. The work has provided invaluable
knowledge as NASA prepares to return to the moon.
The NASA Live Interview Media Outlet satellite channel will be used
for the event. The channel is a digital satellite C-band downlink by
uplink provider Americom. It is on satellite AMC 6, transponder 5C,
located at 72 degrees west, downlink frequency 3785.5 Mhz based on a
standard C-band 5150 Mhz L.O., vertical polarity, FEC is 3/4, data
rate is 6.00 Mhz, symbol rate is 4.3404 Mbaud, transmission DVB,
minimum Eb/N0 is 6.0 dB. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and
schedule information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the Apollo lunar samples and lab, visit:
http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/index.cfm
NASA is planning a number of activities and events in 2009 as the 40th
anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20 approaches. The
events will celebrate the Apollo Program, its accomplishments, and
the benefits to our lives today. For more information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/apollo40th
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