Astrobotic Technology, Inc., Reveals Ambitious Moon Mission Plan for May 2010.

John Reed sent me a link, which I found interesting and will share.
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You may recall my conviction that the private sector will beat NASA to the moon [and probably to Mars]...enjoy this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20081030/sc_space/privatefirmrevealsambitiousmoonmissionplan

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Here is the Space.com link with the story about Astrobotic Technology
and Carnegie Mellon plans.
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http://www.space.com/news/081030-astrobotic-lunar-exploration.html
*Private Firm Reveals Ambitious Moon Mission Plan *
*By Tariq Malik <http://www.space.com/php/contactus/feedback.php?r=tm>*
Senior Editor
posted: 30 October 2008
5:30 pm ET

A private group planning to launch a moon rover to the famed Apollo 11
landing site in a bid to win a $20 million prize announced an ambitious
plan Thursday to send five more spacecraft to explore the lunar poles.

The Pittsburgh, Pa.-based firm Astrobotic Technology, Inc., led by
Carnegie Mellon University roboticist William "Red" Whittaker, announced
plans to launch its first rover to NASA's Tranquility Base in May 2010
to win the Google Lunar X Prize competition
<http://www.space.com/common/media/video.php?videoRef=240907_Moon2_Google>,
the company announced Thursday.

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John was wondering what kind of maps they might have to work with for
the Tranquility Base area.
I found a few links which might be of interest and have listed them below.
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Thanks for looking up with me.

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NASA had pictures from the orbiters before and I am sure Carnegie
Mellon University would have access to them as we do for some of the
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This is a nice web site that lets you go down to the closest images.
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html

Then there is the collection Google has put together for Google Moon.
http://www.google.com/moon/

The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal has much information.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/main.html
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/a11.html

Another nice site in the UK, The Apollo Explorer.
http://www.apolloexplorer.co.uk/
http://www.apolloexplorer.co.uk/apollo11.htm

The USGS did a lot of work in preparing for the Apollo Lunar missions.
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarAtlas/maps/
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarAtlas/maps/images/AP11trav.jpg
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarAtlas/panoramas/

And then there is the Lunar and PLanetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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