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NASA is set to unveil today details of its new space architecture for Moon-to-Mars trip. Last week SPACE.com and Space News reported that NASA will announce today plans to send four astronauts to Moon in 2018 and sending humans to Mars thereafter. On the list: A re-usable vehicle that’s safer than the shuttle; technology for [...]
Once again, the geeks at Google have blown away people with their shenanigans.
Their latest gag has been to import moon maps (courtesy of NASA maps), thus making Google Moon.
Their reasoning? According to the FAQ, it’s the following:
“Because we couldn’t think of a better way to commemorate the first lunar landing, which occurred on July 20, [...]
Hours after a Nasa probe crashed into Comet Tempel 1, legal reverberations were felt in a Moscow court. A case which could see Nasa pay a local amateur astrologist millions of dollars in damages.
Writer Marina Bay claims that by slamming the probe into the comet, Nasa endangered the future of civilisation.
“Nobody has yet proven that [...]
Rubbish dumps of Oxyrhynchus, a city that flourished after the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. reveals texts of Trojan Wars and early Christian gospels that do not appear in the New Testament. Originally developed by NASA scientists and used to map the surface of Mars, multispectral imaging was successfully applied [...]
NASA is developing a subvocal speech system that could enable you to make a phone call while keeping your lips sealed. How do you talk to someone without opening your mouth? Psychics call it telepathy. NASA refers to it as subvocal speech. Scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in California have developed a system [...]
“The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source — antimatter, the eerie ‘mirror’ of ordinary matter — in future weapons,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Beyond the pointed-ear cool factor, antimatter would make a powerful weapon — at least in theory. “If electrons or protons [...]
MIT-NASA team to test first interplanetary laser communication link.
A NASA?MIT Lincoln Laboratory team will forge the first laser communication link between Mars and Earth. This unique experiment, part of NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration, will greatly benefit the transmission of data from robotic spacecraft.
In 2010, the Mars Laser Communication Demonstration (MLCD) will test the [...]
Earthly spin-offs of technology developed for space travel has long been a bonus for nations launching humans and machines into orbit.
Two new machines developed with the help of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have found their way into hospitals on Earth, where physicians have put them to use sniffing out harmful microbes and [...]
The month of July 2004 has two full moons, which means one of them is a Blue Moon. But will it really be blue? Believe it or not, scientists say blue-colored moons are real.
When you hear someone say “Once in a Blue Moon…” you know what they mean: Rare. Seldom. Maybe even absurd. After all, [...]
On June 21, the Sun reached its northernmost point in planet Earth’s sky, marking a season change and the first solstice of the year 2004. In celebration, consider this delightfully detailed, brightly colored image of the active Sun. From the EIT instrument onboard the space-based SOHO observatory, this picture is a false-color composite of three [...]
Dreamers Hope a Catalyst Will Rise From the Mojave Desert.
One week from today, from a runway in a barren reach of the Mojave Desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, Burt Rutan will try sending a pilot higher than anyone has ever flown in a private plane.
A longtime designer of innovative aircraft, he [...]
Universe started with hiss, not bang.
The Universe began not with a bang but with a low moan, building into a roar that gave way to a deafening hiss. And those sounds gave birth to the first stars.
Cosmologists do not usually think in terms of sound, but this aural picture is a good way to think [...]
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