Harris Kenny (Communications Manager of Aleph Objects) provides an update on their desktop 3D printers - John Whitehead (Rutherford Inst) provides and update on American Civil Liberties - Michael Belfiore (Author, Journalist) reports on the private s
Human spaceflight reached an important milestone this week. An additive manufacturing device, or 3D printer, was turned on, and initiated the first official 3D print on the International Space Station (ISS).
In the afterglow of their successful Rosetta comet mission, ministers of the European Space Agency Council meeting in Luxembourg on Dec. 2nd, 2014 approved funding for a new 3-stage launcher. The modular Ariane 6 can launch with two or four boosters
In the afterglow of their successful Rosetta comet mission, ministers of the European Space Agency Council meeting in Luxembourg on Dec. 2nd, 2014 approved funding for a new 3-stage launcher. The modular Ariane 6 can launch with two or four boosters
But to get to Mars we've first got to make it easy for people and equipment to claw their way up out of Earth's gravity. "When you're in low Earth orbit, you're halfway to everywhere." Making that first hundred miles easy and affordable
The first spacecraft to ever visit Pluto is set to wake up on Dec. 6 in preparation for its midsummer rendezvous with the solar system's most famous dwarf planet.
Japan on Monday will launch a space probe on a six-year mission to mine a distant asteroid after the event was postponed due to bad weather, officials said.
The idea of putting a Star Trek-like force field around the entire Earth seems like the fodder for a fairly silly science fiction epic out of the 1930s, but according to space scientists, such a barrier already exists.
The International Space Station's 3D printer has produced its first part, ushering in what proponents hope will be a new age of off-Earth manufacturing.
Another private space exploration venture is under way with the British-led Lunar Mission One announcing plans to send an unmanned robotic landing module to the South Pole of the Moon.
Between 1405 and 1433, Zheng set out from China on massive naval expeditions that reached as far as Mecca and Mombasa, journeys with more than 300 vessels and 28,000 crew, excursions far bigger and longer than those of Columbus more than a half centu
What makes space travel such a remarkable achievement is how absolutely perilous the mission is for human kind. And no one knows the treacherous journey more than the astronauts who trek it.
The saga of Dr. Matt Taylor, Project Scientist for the Rosetta mission, which just performed the astounding, historic feat of landing a space probe on a comet was blasted for wearing a shirt with artwork of scantily clad women
The Philae spacecraft has attempted to drill into the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, but may not have enough battery left to beam the results back to Earth. The European Space Agency's probe, which made its historic landing on the come
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