May 23
The SpaceX Dragon MK 2 is coming, and will be unveiled in full next week. Via Twitter, SpaceX guru Elon Musk confirmed May 29 would be the day we get … Continue reading
Apr 20
With Earth Day round the bend, you’d expect to hear some positive news regarding our planet and the celestial bodies that surround it; instead we have some not-so-good-news. According to … Continue reading
Apr 18
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has just posted video of a successful F9R launch, their re-usable rocket concept. The shuttle (pronounced “f-niner”, incidentally) is shown taking off, rising to 250 meters, then … Continue reading
Apr 14
Robonaut 2 is a robot living aboard the International Space Station with its many scientists, taking on tasks that allow the crew to do more scientific research while it does … Continue reading
Mar 26
Worried that Earth may soon suffer from overpopulation and irreversible environmental damage? Worry not, my fellow passengers of Spaceship Earth! In the future, we’ll just hop on our space-faring Mayflowers to go find habitable planets. At least that was the promise of this Sunday comic strip from 1959.
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Dec 27
The International Space Station is seeing quite a bit of activity this Christmas week, with today’s action surrounding the installation of two high-fidelity cameras. This installation was initiated under Expedition … Continue reading
Dec 09
This week the NASA folks behind the Curiosity Mars rover mission have published a set of papers which suggest that they’re closer than ever to finding habitable environments on the planet. These findings are pre-emptive in finding actual organic materials, and show how life could maybe, possibly have existed on Mars at one time. Basically […]
Nov 22
Virgin Galactic has jumped on the Bitcoin train, with founder Richard Branson announcing it will accept the topical virtual currency for tickets on its space flights. According to Branson, at least one Virgin Galactic early-adopter has paid for her ticket for an upcoming flight in Bitcoins, and the outspoken exec says there are obvious parallels […]
Nov 20
Back in February, Dennis Tito revealed his ambitious plan to send a married couple on a flyby mission to Mars, something he has detailed today to members of Congress in a push to get the US government on board (figuratively speaking). Despite the science fiction-esque sound of it all, Tito says that the project can […]
Nov 17
NASA shelves fuel-efficient tech, effectively slashes outer planet exploration
Posted in: Today's ChiliNASA this weekend all but abandoned a money-saving technology due to a lack of money. You read that correctly. The space agency’s budget woes are so suffocating that it can’t even get the funding to develop ways to make missions more efficient. In this case, the efficiency would have been massive: the Advanced Stirling Radioisotope […]
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