Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Saga of NASA's Heavy Lift Launcher

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Last week, after years of studies and negotiations, NASA finally released a preliminary design for the new rocket that will replace the s...
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Friday, March 4, 2011

Giant 'straddling bus' rides above traffic

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The Chinese are building a giant tramway that rides on stilts high enough so that it can ride over cars on busy streets, avoiding traffic j...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Captain Kirk doesn't trust the VSS Enterprise

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Virgin Galactic is proceeding with tests of its first SpaceShipTwo sub-orbital spacecraft, the VSS Enterprise , that will carry private, ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Farewell, Discovery

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The Space Shuttle Discovery will be launching for the last time on February 24th at 1:50pm PST. Mission STS-133 will be the 39th flight o...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Apollo 18 movie: Cloverfield meets the Space Program

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We finally have a trailer for the upcoming movie 'Apollo 18' , a horror science fiction movie about a hypothetical 18th Apollo mo...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Ares I Resurrected! Give me Liberty

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ATK, the makers of the Space Shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters is joining force with European aerospace company Astrium/EADS, the maker...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Gliese 581g, Mono Lake and the Drake Equation

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In September 2010, scientists discovered a new extrasolor planet , Gliese 581g , that is to date the planet the most similar to earth that...