AP – Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to create a lunar colony that he says could become a U.S. state. There’s his grand research plan to figure out what makes the human brain tick. And he’s warned about electromagnetic pulse attacks leaving America without electricity. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – GOP presidential primary candidate Newt Gingrich has promised a manned moon base by 2020 if he is elected, yet such a plan will face some serious budgetary and practical hurdles, experts say. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich came under fire — mostly for economic reasons — when he proposed at the CNN Republican Presidential Debate in Jacksonville that he would like to have a permanent moon base on Earth’s lone satellite by the end of his second term as president. But even if...
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Article by Jyotishacharya Vinay Sheel Saxena The Moon is favourite of poets and lovers, main interest of scientists and very important in astrology. The Moon is supposed to be queen of the planetary kingdom as Sun is believed as a king. The Moon is the smallest planet. It is smaller than earth and 250,000...
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SPACE.com – Anyone who received a telescope over the holidays may be itching to try it out. The most popular first target for any telescope is our nearest neighbor in space, the moon. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – Russia is talking to NASA and the European Space Agency about building manned research colonies on the moon, according to Russian news reports. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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What has happened to Saturn’s moon Iapetus? APOD
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ContributorNetwork – The reaction to the publication of a white paper by the Chinese government which spelled out a long term goal of landing a man on the moon was varied. How one viewed it largely depended on how one views space exploration. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – Two photographers have snapped spectacular portraits of the International Space Station streaking across the night sky, catching the orbiting lab crossing the moon and slipping by Jupiter. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Where’s the full Moon? APOD
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SPACE.com – The moon and Jupiter kicked off a new year of skywatching Monday night (Jan. 2) in a cosmic rendezvous that amazed skywatchers around the world. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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