The Saturn C-1 Heavy space vehicle will be launched experimentally this fall for the first time. In this first firing of the three stage rocket, only the booster will be "live" and it will be operating at a thrust somewhat lower (12%) than that planned for later Saturns Series 5 High Water Project

Introduction: Accurate models of the lunar thermal and illumination environment require a realistic treatment of scattered radiation at high incidence and emission angles. It has long been appreciated that the bidirectional reflectance of lunar soil is anisotropic [1], yet most lunar thermal models still assume that scattered radiation is isotropic. We recently measured the bidirectional reflec...

The fine-grained surface material at the Apollo 11 landing site is a brownish, medium-gray, slightly cohesive granular soil, with bulky grains in the silt-to-fine-sand range, having a specific gravity of 3.1 and exhibiting adhesive characteristics. Within the upper few centimeters, the lunar soil has an average density of about 1.6 grams per cubic centimeter and is similar in appearance and beh...

This specification defines a Uniform Resource Name namespace for UUIDs (Universally Unique IDentifier), also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique IDentifier). A UUID is 128 bits long, and can guarantee uniqueness across space and time. UUIDs were originally used in the Apollo Network Computing System and later in the Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), and then ...

This article presents new perspectives concerning the dancers featured on interior of portal Trysa’s Heroon and Xanthos’s “Dancers Sarcophagus,” which became famous at end 19th century. It also focuses interpreting visuals that are today widely accepted as having been wrongly identified “Kalathiskos Dancers” in literature, contradiction to Isabella Benda’s collective analyses a variety dance co...

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The technique of lunar laser ranging (LLR) has for many decades contributed to cutting-edge tests of the fundamental nature of gravity. These include the best tests to date of the strong equivalence principle, the time-rate-of-change of the gravitational constant, gravitomagnetism, the inverse square law, and preferred frame effects. The phenomenologies of each are briefly discussed, followed b...

It is a great pleasure to be here today and to greet you hardy suMvors of the pool party. I will do my best to avoid loud noises and bright colors during my status report. Since the last SETP Symposium, the Apollo Program has been quite busy in a number of different areas. (Figure 1) My problem is to sift through this information and to talk only about those things of most interest to you. Firs...

0019-1035/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.11.034 * Corresponding author. Fax: +86 21 65643902. E-mail address: [email protected] (Y.-Q. Jin). In China’s first lunar exploration project, Chang-E 1 (CE-1), a multi-channel microwave radiometer was aboard the satellite, with the purpose of measuring microwave brightness temperature (Tb) from lunar surface and surve...