It would seem that Mailer's talent lies in his ability to merge the art of fiction and the craft of reportage, and his Of a Fire on the Moon (1970), which deals with the American lunar project, reads like an episode in an emergent roman-fleuve of which Mailer is the central character.
In 2000, O'Leary and one of her past students at New Mexico State University, Ralph Gibson, led a small team to launch the Lunar Legacy Project, an effort to inventory the human-created features and the more than a hundred artifacts abandoned at the Apollo 11 landing site — everything from food bags to boots, defecation-collection devices, and even the plastic covering used for the U.S. flag.
The seismometer is of an electromagnetic type, light weight, small size and has good shock-durability, making it suitable for being loaded onto a penetrator, which is a small, hard-landing probe developed in the LUNAR-A Project, a previous canceled mission.
The goal of the Sooner Lunar Schooner Project is to improve the science and engineering educations of the hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students working on the project.
Results of numerical simulations are presented to examine the global gravity field recovery capability of the Japanese lunar exploration project SELENE (SELenological and ENgineering Explorer) which will be launched in 2007.
The Lunar Orbit Image Recovery Project is a critical example of how antiquated technologies can today be reverse-engineered and extracted for data.
Dive into Extraterrestrial, below, the third part of a documentary series helmed by the Hillman Photography Initiative of the Carnegie Museum of Art, to get an exclusive look at the intricacies of the Lunar Orbit Image Recovery Project, and the potential for techno-archaeology.
In 2015, Harbin Institute of Technology in China develops an imitation humanoid "dexterous hand" for the national lunar exploration project.
The Nazis and their enablers tackled the Holocaust with a problem-solving ethos not unlike what we associate with the Manhattan Project or the lunar landing.
ST. LOUIS (AP), Aug. 3 — Oliver C. Boileau, a retired aerospace executive who worked on projects from the lunar rover to the B-2 stealth bomber, died here on July 27.
