Gardening in Microgravity: How Space Plants Are Adapting (Video)
• https://www.space.com, By Kasandra BrabawA new NASA video explores the science of space gardening and what researchers are learning about plants in space.
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Watch Live 6/25 @ 4:25 p.m. ET: SpaceX Launching 10 New Iridium Satellites
• Space.ComOn Sunday (June 25), SpaceX will complete a rocket launch doubleheader when it launches a new Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Liftoff is set for 1:25 p.m. PDT (4:25 p.m. EDT/2025 GMT).
On a Roll! SpaceX Launches, Lands Used Rocket Once Again...
• https://www.space.com, By Mike WallOn a Roll! SpaceX Launches, Lands Used Rocket Once Again, With 'Highest-Ever Reentry Force'
Pew Pew Pew! Why Scientists Are Fired Up About Futuristic Space Lasers
• https://www.space.com, By Mindy WeisbergerPew, pew, pew! Epic laser battles with highly concentrated beams of deadly light punching through starship hulls, slicing off limbs -- or instantly vaporizing spacecraft, bodies and even planets -- have been a much-loved and time-honored tradition
Preparing for War, US House Wants to Create First New Military Branch Since 1947
• theantimedia.orgThere's currently a push in the halls of Washington D.C., to establish a new branch of the military by 2019, one whose focus would be operations among the stars.
NASA Tests Flexible Roll-Out Solar Array on Space Station (Video)
• https://www.space.com, By Samantha MathewsonNASA's new compact high-power solar array made its debut on the International Space Station Sunday (June 18), allowing astronauts to test the technology's durability for deep-space missions.
Company Aims to Launch Satellite-Servicing Spacecraft in 2020
• space.com By Tereza PultarovaJust three years from now, a fleet of small robotic spacecraft could be cruising the space around Earth repairing and moving satellites, under the plans of a United Kingdom-based startup.
The Air Force Is Getting a Space General
• https://motherboard.vice.com"We must organize and train forces to be able to prevail in any future conflict which could extend into space."
Elon Musk Now Has A Plan To Colonize Mars With 1 Million People
• technocracy.news By Dave MosherTechnocracy Elon Musk put his money where his mouth is and be the first human to go live on the planet Mars, and preferably soon. There is a sub-culture of Technocrats who are bent on escaping Earth. ? TN Editor
NASA's Wild Fabric Is Basically Chain Mail From the Future
• https://www.wired.com, Elizabeth StinsonTraveling to outer space is an exercise in efficiency. At $10,000 per pound onboard, it pays to keep things light.
Natalie Panek: Let's clean up the space junk orbiting Earth
• TEDOur lives depend on a world we can't see: the satellite infrastructure we use every day for information, entertainment, communication and so much more.
Natalie Panek: Let's clean up the space junk orbiting Earth
• TEDOur lives depend on a world we can't see: the satellite infrastructure we use every day for information, entertainment, communication and so much more.
China's Quantum Satellite Sent Entangled Photons to Earth for the First Time
• motherboard.vice.com by Daniel OberhausWe could be just five years away from a space-based quantum communication network.
Air Force shows ULA launch prices are over four times more than Spacex
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangAir Force 2018 budget shows United Launch Alliance launch the "unit cost" of a single rocket launch in fiscal year 2020 is $422 million, and $424 million for a year later while Spacex cost $83 to 97 million each.
Half a Million People Have Bombarded 'Space Nation' Asgardia With Citizenship Applications
• sciencealert.com by Bec CrewStop the planet, we want to get off.
XS-1: DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane
• https://www.space.com, By Elizabeth HowellThe XS-1 is a space plane under development by the U.S. military's high-tech agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
NASA'S WILD FABRIC IS BASICALLY CHAIN MAIL FROM THE FUTURE
• WiredIt looks like chain mail, but unlike the ancient armor, NASA's fabric isn't welded together. Instead a 3-D printer extrudes stainless steel as a continuous sheet of material with different properties on each side.
China's Quantum Satellite Sent Entangled Photons to Earth for the First Time
• MotherboardWe could be just five years away from a space-based quantum communication network.
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06-16-17 -- 'Skip' The Free Rifleman - Doug Messier -- (VIDEO & MP3s LOADED)
Program Date:'Skip' The Free Rifleman (activist; survivalist) comes on the show to talk about his pirate relief carving; putting survival skills in to practice -- Doug Messier (managing editor of Parabolicarc.com) talks about the commercial, private space race; f
The 2016 Spacex Mars Colonization plan has been published online
• nextbigfuture.com Author: brian wangSpacex is estimating they wil be able to achieve $140,000 per ton for the trips to Mars.
Made in space also working on robotic manufacturing of large structures in space
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comMade In Space is putting 3D printing into space and is working on other space based manufacturing. They are looking to make large light structures as well. They call these systems Archinaut. It is an alternative approach to the Tether unlimited spide
Citizenship Enrollment for the First Ever 'Space Nation' Is Now Open
• motherboard.vice.com by Ben SullivanAsgardia will launch its first satellite later this year.
First satellite for the "space nation" of Asgardia due for launch in August
• newatlas.com by Michael IrvingLast year, some 200,000 people decided they don't want to live on this planet anymore, and registered to be citizens of the first "space nation," Asgardia.
Sex in Space: The Final Frontier for Mars Colonization?
• space.com By Mike WallIf humanity is serious about colonizing Mars, we need to get busy studying how to get busy in space.
Musk's SpaceX Joins the Military
• Bloomberghttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-12/musk-s-spacex-joins-the-military
Spy Satellite to Spy on Spy Satellites?
• Dr Roy SpencerSuch a capability would no doubt include high resolution imagers, electronic surveillance, and whatever else they can think of to investigate other countrys' spy satellites and better figure out what they are doing up there.
Pint-Size Satellites Promise Spy-Quality Images--Cheap
• Bloomberg - Ashlee VanceAn Iranian immigrant in Silicon Valley is challenging the $500 million behemoths and touting night shots that pierce cloud cover.
Small nuclear fusion space and energy systems using high efficiency RF heating
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangPrinceton Plasma Physics Laboratory has two NASA grants.
NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft is a Discovery Machine
• http://parabolicarc.comASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its third year of survey data, with the spacecraft discovering 97 previously unknown celestial objects in the last year. Of those, 28 were near-Earth objects
Century-old relativity experiment used to measure a white dwarf's mass
• sciencedaily.comAstronomers have used the sharp vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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