Photo: With the Lunar New Year starting on Wednesday, Wang Tang, left, and Amy Chan sold flowers at a market in Chinatown yesterday.
Planetary scientist David Paige of the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues performed the first complete calculations of lunar temperatures, starting with the shadowing by topography and including heating by reflected sunlight and by adjacent sun-warmed rock.
I learned so much, and the futuristic world of The Lunar Chronicles started to grow out of those articles about real-world science.
Korea is planning a series of lunar space programs in 2020 starting with a lunar orbiter and a lander with a rover.
We've got plans for commercial lunar landers and rovers starting as early as 2019 — that is to say, they'll be in development, not touching down.
Many national space agencies are actively advocating to build up a lunar surface habitat capability starting from 2030 or earlier: according to ESA Technology Roadmaps for Exploration this should be the result of a broad international cooperation.
An earlier version of the same technology powered five Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages, starting with Apollo 12 in 1969.
Elysium Space, based in San Francisco, announced this month that it will soon be offering lunar burials for a starting price of $9,950.
On Monday, it said it would begin an aggressive marketing campaign after the Lunar New Year, which starts Feb. 10, to restore KFC's brand image.
The Chinese Lion Dance is traditionally performed to celebrate the beginning of the Lunar New Year, which starts this weekend.
