NASA’s 2011 year in review
It’s been a big year for NASA. From Kepler to the Dawn missions to the launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity. The video below, “This Year @NASA” looks back at the space stories that made 2011.
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- April 9, 2013
Spaceship 2 and the moonImagine looking up to sky and seeing this.
- November 27, 2012
Elon Musk REALLY wants to colonize MarsKey things needed for his vision to succeed are reusable rockets, willing (and wealthy) volunteers, and a collaborating government to foot some of the bill. “Some money has to be spent on establishing a base on Mars. It’s about getting the basic fundamentals in place,” Musk said. “That was true of the English colonies [in [...]
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Warp drive: how and when?
IO9 has a detailed article with an interview of physicist Harold White, who a few months ago at the 100 year starship symposium, revealed that the energy requirements for an Alcubierre warp drive capable of 2-4 week trip to the closest star system, Alpha Centauri. Here’s a quote I thought was compelling: “In late 1942, [...]
- November 21, 2012
Exotic propulsion conceptsCentauri Dreams has published a story detailing some exotic propulsion concepts proposed by the likes of Arthur C. Clarke and Clifford Singer.
- November 20, 2012
New Mars discovery “is gonna be one for the history books”We won’t know what it is for a couple of weeks, but I have to imagine it has something to do with finding some evidence of organic compounds or even past life on Mars.
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Newly discovered super-exo-planet is 13 times bigger than Jupiter
This gigantic planet was directly imaged by astronomers in Hawaii using the Subaru Telescope. I have to imagine that there are some Earth sized moons orbiting this behemoth.
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