The Four Coolest Concepts NASA Just Bankrolled to Solve Spaceflight Challenges
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A smart trash bag. A contaminant-resistant spacesuit. These proposals, and over 100 more, have been funded by NASA for development.
Thousands of people could live in space colonies orbiting the Earth in 20 years, expert claims
"It was a pleasant surprise to see that potatoes we've bred to tolerate abiotic stress were able to produce tubers in this soil," researcher Julio Valdivia-Silva said.
China is developing an advanced new rocket.
Beijing (AP) -- China is developing an advanced new spaceship capable of both flying in low-Earth orbit and landing on the moon, according to state media, in another bold step for a space program that equaled the U.S. in number of rocket launches las
could self supporting and rapidly growing space economy ... Several companies will collectively be launching about 20,000 satellites over the next few years. SpaceX, OneWeb, Telesat, O3b Networks and Theia Holdings -- all told the FCC they hav
Simulation shows the New Glenn landing on a drone ship
An inflatable structure(s) can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 Gauss) as an active shield against the solar wind and allow the Martian atmosphere to thicken overtime.
Sending tourists for a trip around the moon is the latest big idea launched by Elon Musk, a Silicon Valley star known for turning his passions into visionary enterprises.
Continuing on its mission to open up the space frontier, Virgin Galactic has spun off a new company dedicated to launching small satellites.
Bigelow Aerospace founder Robert Bigelow's company makes in-space habitats.
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin have been circulating a seven-page white paper to NASA leadership and President Trump's transition team about their interest in developing a lunar spacecraft with a lander that would touch down near a crater at the south po
Blue Origin's New Shepard Team is the winner of Aviation Week's 60th Annual Space Laureate.
Blue Origin could bring Bezos's shipping empire to deep space
A vest designed to shield astronauts from deadly solar particles in deep space is set for trials on a lunar mission ready for deployment on any manned mission to Mars, its Israeli developers said.
...of the moon
SpaceX recently announced that two private citizens will be sent on a trip to the moon as soon as next year.
How Jeff Raymond is developing sustainable agriculture for communities on Earth and the Red Planet.
It's life, but not as we know it. The oldest fossil ever discovered on Earth shows that organisms were thriving 4.2 billion years ago, hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.
In 2016, Newt Gingrich said that the combination of the Air Force's parochialism and NASA's bureaucracy, has caused the USA to be at least 25 years behind where we should be in space capability.
SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon in 2018, the company's founder Elon Musk announced Monday (Feb. 27).
Early last year, Jeff Raymond was hit with an epiphany. Despite enjoying the benefits of agricultural developments, he and his wife came to realize they weren't doing anything to contribute to sustainable agriculture themselves.
Big permanent moonbase by 2021 using Spacex and Bigelow has been the obvious non-corrupt choice for years
For the first time, astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets orbiting a single nearby star -- and these new worlds could hold life.
NASA NEXTSTep program awarded Ad Astra Vasimr plasma propulsion a three-year, $9 million contract in 2015. Ad Astra must fire its plasma rocket for 100 hours, at a power level of 100 kilowatts in 2018.
NASA NEXTSTep program awarded Ad Astra Vasimr plasma propulsion a three-year, $9 million contract in 2015. Ad Astra must fire its plasma rocket for 100 hours, at a power level of 100 kilowatts in 2018.
Three of them may be habitable
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The UAE may not be the first country that comes to mind when one thinks of space exploration, but it has big plans to colonize mars, and it's got the oil money to do it.