Associate Administrator for Space Operations, William H. Gerstenmaier from NASA, and Dr. Franklin R. Chang Diaz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ad Astra, a rocket company based in Webster, Texas, signed their third Space Act Agreement one week ago (on December 8th 2008), which could result in the installmen... |
15 December 2008
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Citizens in the neighborhood of SpaceX's McGregor Test Facility in Texas have hopefully calmed down by now, following the panic stirred Saturday night. They must have been assured that no war, Sun explosion or alien invasion was in place at the time, as some appear to have believed. In fact, the reaction was cau... |
25 November 2008
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Researchers from MIT came up with a new underwater robot that can stay in place over a specific location as a helicopter using its thrusts.Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology called the device Odyssey IV, and it's the latest in the Odyssey series of tiny, cheap and intelligent crafts develop... |
29 September 2008
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China's space attempt may be fueled by the newly-emerging technology that the majority of scientists are now contesting. Chinese researchers are currently trying to build the "Emdrive" (electromagnetic drive), which would change all space propulsion systems in case it becomes functional. Basically, the tech... |
25 September 2008
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Flying saucers have fascinated people for years and the hundreds of thousands of UFO sightings reported during the past decades have done a pretty good job in fueling the public's interest in this so-called alien design. However, until the aliens decide to let us into their best protected secrets, we'll jus... |
12 June 2008
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Well, not exactly... I mean they will not reach superluminal speeds or something, not to talk about the high acceleration capabilities or thrust. Astrium, the contractor of the construction of the BepiColumbo spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch in 2013 in a mission to planet Mercury, stated that the probe will r... |
21 January 2008
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