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more about #jaxa Nick: i am not everyone is on the same page in this thread. everyone knows michael jordan is and will always be the best basketball player ever. more » KhaiJB: this is Eagle 1, I can make it Commander! more » GlenTen: Great, who's going to clean that mess up? Sheesh. more » Hello Mister Walrus: I was expecting a trench. more » facepuncher: me no rikey more » TheCrudMan: Pretty sure that line it crosses is digital and has to do with the way they stitch images together...it is not straight, and has aliased jaggies. more » Kaiser-Machead: And if your sat explodes with dark forebodings too, I,ll see you on the dark side of the moon. more » Geisrud: Is that the "dark side", as in the unseen side? Or the side currently not getting any sunlight? more » frigg: The moon's surface area is still hella large at almost 1/10 that of Earth. It's not like this thing would run into Earthling debris unless the missio... more » Serolf Divad: Are they going to overfly the area where the Yamato is buried? more » rrwakc: finally we will know if there was a moon landing or not, anyone see US/Russian flag anywhere or maybe the landing part of the lunar module? more » Ron21: So, why don't they take a few pictures of the 1969 U.S landing site ?? more » -
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Selene's Final Approach Before Crashing Into the Moon
The Selene lunar probe has captured amazing footage of the surface of the moon, but on June 11th it finally crashed into the surface. This is a reconstruction of its final approach, based on flight data. [JAXA via Pink Tentacle] -
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Videos So Close to the Moon You Can Almost Touch It
Selene— Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's spacecraft mapping and filming the moon in High Definition for the first time—keeps returning crystal-clear videos of the Moon surface. And the video will keep getting closer and closer, until it crashes. More » -
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Unmanned Japanese Cargo Spacecraft Could Be NASA's Next Space Shuttle
With the dinosaur Space Shuttle set to retire in 2010, and Orion due to be finished (optimistically) by 2015, NASA may purchase the $131 million unmanned HTV cargo vehicle from JAXA, Japan's space agency, to guarantee fresh shipments of space-Doritos flowing up to the brave souls on the International Space Sation. While they had initially planned to fill this gap by relying on commercial space cargo flights by companies like SpaceX, Reuters is reporting that delays in the private-sector space companies have caused NASA to look elsewhere to avoid being crippled by the Shuttle's retirement. UPDATE: NASA issued a statement this afternoon saying the Reuters' report was full of baloney. They're still dedicated to finding commercial haulers—full release below. More » -
