Archive for 'Space'
10 Best Innovations of 2011
Popular Science recently featured the 100 Best Innovations of the Year. Here are 10 of the most exciting and interesting ones. Recreation: Lifesaving Wetsuit The Billabong V1 is more than just a wetsuit. This suit inflates a bladder in the back of the suit once an attached ripcord is pulled, helping the wearer float in [...]
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Future of Human Space Flight with Elon Musk
In just a few minutes SpaceX founder Elon Musk (also founder of the Tesla car company), will be speaking at the National Press Club in Washington DC, streamed live. The subject is the future of human space flight. If this interests you, tune in now.
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3D Manufacture in Space
It has been possible for years now to do 3D design, 3D prototyping, and more recently 3D manufacture or 3D printing of more and more complex objects. Increasingly this kind of work can be done using small machines, even desktop machines. This past summer I heard about a project to extend the concept of 3D [...]
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What we left on the moon
Once upon a time, in a Galaxy far, far away, we went to the Moon.
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Colonizing Space and Yesterday’s Dreams
I grew up on this stuff. In the 1970′s some at NASA believed it may be realistic to be building colonies in orbit of up to 10,000 people, by…about now. It may have been, had we really wanted to. The original dreams came from the work of Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, and his book High [...]
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Are you an alien – DNA building-blocks from space found in meteorites
NASA recently reported that scientists have identified nucleobases that make up our genetic code in meteorites and that it appears they were created in space. It has been theorized that life may have actually migrated to Earth rather than spontaneously appearing here, and this kind of discovery supports that possibility. Popular Science has a nice [...]
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Our Future in Space: Moving Offworld
Three milestones in space were passed in the last four days. The NASA spacecraft Dawn began its close approach to the second largest of the know asteroids in the asteroid belt, the asteroid Vesta. The final space shuttle mission ended with the landing of Atlantis this morning. And, yesterday marked the anniversary of the day [...]
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Space Tourism 2011
(Written with Catherine Otten) The space experience race is on. I have always wanted to go into space. It could happen sooner than we think. All I need is the money. According to the Space Tourism Society, billionaires such as Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, and Sir Richard Branson are spending hundreds of millions of dollars [...]
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Travel to Mars in 39 days – Mars is closer because of SpaceX
If you could go to Mars in 39 days and return in the same amount of time, would you go? I would. The opportunity for someone, someday to do just that became a step closer to reality today, with the successful launch, orbit, re-entry, and recovery of the SpaceX Dragon spaceship. But, SpaceX and Dragon [...]
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch – success!
Update on previous post: The SpaceX company of Elon Musk launched its Falcon 9 into orbit for the first time today – this is one of the private spacecraft that NASA is counting on for future access to space. After one aborted launch attempt that shut down automatically when telemetry readings were not correct, a [...]
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