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Latest Exploration Features

Lighting up the Lunar Night

12.12.07

How do you survive where there's no water or wind and sometimes no sunlight for weeks? The answer could be a fuel cell that works in reverse.

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Enhanced Radar Imagery of Lunar South Pole

02.27.08

How do you survive where there's no water or wind and sometimes no sunlight for weeks? The answer could be a fuel cell that works in reverse.

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Kennedy's Desert RATS

This flexible dust screen is one of many technologies tested in Desert RATS.

12.07.07

Three teams from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida journey west each year to participate in the agency's Desert Research and Technology Studies.

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Apollo: A Look Back

Famous NASA image of the astronaut planting the American flag on lunar soil.

08.27.07

One prominent NASA scientist takes a look back at the Apollo era at NASA.

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More Features

What Did We Get From Apollo?

While it culminated with "One Small Step," there was a lot more to the Apollo Program.
Desert RATS Test Lunar Exploration Concepts

As NASA prepares for future missions to the moon, work is already underway here on Earth to test the planetary rovers, robots and futuristic spacesuits needed for the journey.
NASA RATS Bring the Moon to Earth

Once a year, the Agency's RATS (Research and Technology Studies) team makes its way to remote a location in the Arizona or California desert to bring the moon right down to Earth -- Figuratively speaking that is.
Lunar Outpost Plans Taking Shape

The agency's Lunar Architecture Team has been hard at work, looking at concepts for habitation, rovers, and space suits.
Exploding Lunar Eclipse

On Tuesday morning, Aug. 28th, a team of astronomers and engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center will attempt something never done before--to observe meteoroids hitting the Moon and exploding during a lunar eclipse.

Additional Feature Series

This Month in Exploration

Visit "This Month in Exploration" every month to find out how aviation and space exploration have changed throughout the years, improving life for humans on Earth and in space.
Why We Explore

In a series of essays titled "Why We Explore", NASA Chief Historian Steven J. Dick writes about our current Age of Space as "a continuous story of voyages further and further from the home planet."