May 23, 2000 LunaCorp Gets Corporate Backing for Moon Mission
"The 2003 mission involves a robotic rover built in partnership with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Called the IceBreaker Moon Rover, the electric vehicle will try to confirm that ice exists at the lunar poles of the moon." (Space.com)

May 23, 2000 30 Years Later, Moon Rocks Retain Their Secrets
"Thirty years after they were picked up and hauled back to Earth by the Apollo astronauts, the 842 pounds (382 kilograms) of moon rocks still have not given up all their secrets." (Space.com)

May 23, 2000 Take Your Business to the Moon
"A company that aims to launch the first commercial mission to the moon next year is auctioning off the opportunity for movers and shakers everywhere to tuck a business card aboard the spacecraft." (Space.com)

May 22, 2000 Space-- Tourism's Hot Ticket
"Fly you to the moon? Some 1,200 are on one waiting list. 'Space hotels will open in my lifetime,' vows an entrepreneur who's investing $500 million." (Los Angeles Times)

May 19, 2000 Taking space: Visions of the future - 'Nanotechnology' could lead to building colonies for humans
"In only 10 years, scientists could develop molecule-sized machines capable of building new space outposts for humans to colonize, according to some futuristic thinkers who spoke at a NASA conference Thursday." (The Huntsville Times)

May 14, 2000 Lunar Entrepreneurs Wary of NASA Moon Mission
A report last week that NASA is planning its first mission to the lunar surface in thirty years has raised the hackles of entrepreneurs who think the space agency is stepping on their plans for commercial missions to the Moon. (Space.com)

May 14, 2000 Air Force Had Plans to Nuke Moon
The U.S. Air Force developed a top-secret Cold War plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon in the 1950s. (Space.com)

May 12, 2000 U. Maryland students design lunar rover
A group of University of Maryland aerospace engineering students designed a lunar rover and finished in second place in a competition at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston last week. (Excite News)

May 11, 2000 NASA Plans For Lunar Landing
A mission that would soft land a spacecraft on the moon for the first time in more than 30 years and return lunar rocks to Earth is on the drawing board at NASA. (Space.com)

May 10, 2000 You Want To Be Buried on the Moon?
The company that launched cremated bits of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and LSD guru Timothy Leary into the heavens more than three years ago is taking reservations to bury the dearly departed on the moon as early as next year. (Space.com)

May 8, 2000 Space Tourism Hindered by Perceived NASA Elitism
Bring the subject of human access to space up in a room full of commercial space advocates and NASA officials and the tension level gets unbearable. (Space.com)

May 5, 2000 Robots Set To Change The Face Of Australian Mining
The Arthur C.Clarke/Isaac Asimov vision of robotic industries, science fiction only a few years ago, is poised to become reality in the Australian mining sector driven by the twin needs for safety and efficiency.  Many of these advances could easily be applied to lunar conditions. (Space.com)

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