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NASA To Test Laser Data Transmission In October
In our modern world everyone certainly wants to send and receive wireless data as fast as they can, and NASA is no exception. NASA has confirmed that they will be testing a prototype laser...
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Mars Rover Put Into “Safe Mode” After Memory Issue
Not including a long 563,000,000 km (350,000,000 mi) journey, NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity has been on Mars for nearly 7 month now. In this time, Curiosity has been gathering data about the “Red...
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NASA Wants to 3D Print a Lunar Base Too
Last month, we read about how the European Space Agency was teaming up with architectural firm Foster and Partners. The idea is that they would use 3D printing technology to build a lunar base. This...
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Voyager 1: Where Is It?
Voyager 1, which was launched 35 years ago, is now the most distant man-made object to leave our planet. But where is it now? According to W.R. Webber of the New Mexico State University Department of...
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Solar Conjunction Puts NASA Mars Exploration on Pause
Don’t worry. NASA is going to keep exploring Mars and we’re going to keep learning things about the red planet, but all of those operations will effectively be put on pause for a period of up to three...
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Advances in Nuclear Fusion Could see Rockets Reaching Mars in Days Rather...
Watch any space-based Sci-fi program and there will be some engineer complaining to the captain that “the last photon torpedo disrupted the nuclear fusion reactor” or “if we reverse the polarity of...
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NASA Plans to Kidnap an Asteroid for Further Study
In the Star Trek universe, our brave heroes endeavor to “boldly go where no man has gone before.” NASA is taking a slightly different approach, bringing the world of space closer to us instead. They...
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NASA spacecraft ‘Cassini’ Captures Massive Saturn Hurricane On Video
In 2009, winter ended at Saturn’s North Pole and began to let sunlight in to brighten up the place. It was then that scientists discovered that there was a massive hurricane in the region. Three years...
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Martian Dust Would Be A Danger To Human Visitors
A manned mission to Mars could happen sometime in the coming decades, possibly by 2030. One of the safety issues, which was discussed by researchers and public health experts at the Humans 2 Mars...
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Lockheed Martin’s ADAM High Energy Laser Destroying A Rocket (Video)
What you see above is a laser beam striking and tracking a point at the front of a rocket to destroy it mid-flight. The beam is from Lockheed Martin’s newly developed ADAM high energy laser (HEL)...
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Manned Trip To Mars: Current Radiation Shielding Not Going To Help
A manned mission to Mars is a big dream for many, but certainly there are obstacles ahead, one of which will be radiation. The radiation of Mars has been measured by Curiosity’s Radiation Assessment...
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NASA Wants You to Wave to Saturn, Come July 19th
Get ready to smile for the camera, Cassini will be taking your picture come July 19th. Okay, so you won’t actually be visible from the image, considering it will be taken 898 million miles away from...
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NASA 2020 Mars Mission: Aims to Seek Out Past Alien Life
NASA is working on a new Mars rover which will be part of an unnamed 2020 mission to the red planet. The new machine will be searching for signs of past life, and not current life. The new rover will...
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Here’s What Will Happen to Our Sun When It Dies
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. While our friends in the Star Trek universe venture out to explore strange new worlds and to seek out new life, back here...
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NASA Has a New Search and Rescue Robot Monkey
Robots can take on all sorts of different forms. You have the ones that almost resemble trash cans, like R2-D2. You have the robot dogs, like Sony’s AIBO. You have humanoid robots, like Honda’s ASIMO....
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New Boeing Space Capsule to Fly NASA Astronauts to ISS
Most of us are familiar with the Boeing name, having flown on one of their planes to get to this place or that, but the Chicago-based corporations also has ambitions that take us beyond the Earth’s...
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How To Exercise In Space (Video)
As we have seen before, it is quite a difficult task for astronauts to keep themselves clean aboard the International Space Station, but they also have to make sure that they get enough exercise out...
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Hubble Captures Stunning Photo of Comet ISON
The human race has been gazing up at the starry skies for millennia, but now we have all sorts of tools and machinery that let us look even more closely and with more detail. The scientists of NASA...
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Video: NASA, Oculus Rift and Virtuix Omni Let You Walk Around Mars
Realistically, none of us will likely have the opportunity to step foot on the Red Planet during our lifetimes, but this reasonably affordable virtual reality simulation could be the next best thing....
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Video: Sun’s Magnetic Field to Reverse Polarity, Not Cause End of World
We survived Y2K largely unscathed. We survived the so-called Mayan Apocalypse of 2012. We survived the doomsday predictions of Nostradamus. And we will also survive the cosmic phenomenon of our sun...
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