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Retro Rockets – Back to the Future, or the Way Ahead?
Posted on May 13, 2012 | No CommentsA future with gigantic space wheels, winged rockets, orbital tugs and tiny space suited figures busy creating a future that remains tantalizingly out of reach -
Dawn adds new light on Vesta
Posted on May 13, 2012 | No CommentsScientists have confirmed a variety of ways in which Vesta more closely resembles a small planet or Earth's moon than another asteroid -
Carbon satellite on the move
Posted on May 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe instrument at the heart of Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spacecraft – NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric CO2 – has left JPL -
Ariane 5 stage to put Americans back in orbit
Posted on May 11, 2012 | No CommentsATK has developed Liberty into a commercial crew transportation system, including the spacecraft, abort system, launch vehicle, and ground & mission operations -
SpaceX evaluation of prototype Dragon spacecraft
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsSpace Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has finished an important evaluation of a prototype Dragon spacecraft designed to carry people into orbit. -
Odyssey Micro Interview: Dr Geoffrey Landis
Posted on March 22, 2012 | No CommentsIn advance of his talk at the BIS on the 11 April 2012 Dr Geoffrey Landis (NASA scientist and award-winning science fiction writer) talks to Odyssey -
NASA boss gets a pasting from Congress
Posted on March 21, 2012 | No CommentsFurious at the Obama White House funding in the Fiscal Year 2013 budget for Mars exploration, today NASA boss Charlie Bolden got a pasting from Congressmen -
JBIS vol. 64 No.8
Posted on March 9, 2012 | No CommentsA special issue with key papers from the International Space University, including replacement issues on the ISS, Mars mission simulations, and space education -
Exploring Venus: Preparations for a Descent into Hell
Posted on February 27, 2012 | No CommentsVenus is one of the most hostile planets and one of the most scientifically interesting, both eerily similar and radically different from Earth. -
Glenn’s Flight – A Historical Reflection
Posted on February 20, 2012 | No CommentsFifty years ago today the first US manned orbital flight took place from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
