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What it looks like to fly to the edge of space in a MiG-29 Fulcrum
Ever wondered what flying one of the most famous Russian warplanes at supersonic speed and so high (between 17 and 22 km) that you can clearly see the curvature of Earth?The video below will give you a...
View ArticleThis Utah desert looks so much like Mars that scientists use it for training
Nonprofit organization Mars Society uses the southern Utah desert to simulate what life will be like on Mars. For more than a decade, engineers and scientists have been going there hoping their...
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Russia's multibillion-dollar space project is mired in corruption scandals
Designed to showcase a revamped space industry and divert attention from recent failures, Russia's multibillion-dollar project to build its own space launch pad to take over from Soviet-era Baikonur...
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The glory days of American spaceflight are over
Have you heard that America won't be going to space anymore?Yeah, I know, we can hitch a ride with the Russians or the Chinese, but that's just not the same. And a few entrepreneurs are proposing...
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NASA wants to send humans to Mars in this giant flying saucer and it's about...
Due to unfavorable ocean conditions, NASA has postponed their test flight of the low-density supersonic decelerator spacecraft to Wednesday, June 3 no sooner than 1:30 pm ET.NASA has big plans to land...
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Why 6 people have spent nearly 8 months locked inside a dome on top of a volcano
Right now, six people are living inside a 1200 square foot dome on top of a volcano on the Island of Hawaii.The spot is in the middle of nowhere, cut off from civilization:Seriously:These people are...
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First images from the set of 'The Martian' show us what living on Mars could...
Alert: mild spoilers lie ahead, as we’ll be discussing minor plot points of the book The Martian. What, you haven’t read it yet? Have you been stranded on Mars? Don’t make us pull your geek card…Never...
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NASA is not ready to detect alien life on Jupiter's beautiful water-rich moon
In humanity's ultimate quest to discover life beyond Earth, astrobiologists are looking to water-rich worlds within our cosmic neighborhood like Saturn's moon Enceladus or Jupiter's moon Europa.Looking...
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A 23-year-old student just proved a mysterious phenomenon on Earth that has...
A 60-year-old theory about the structure of the magnetic fields that surround Earth has been confirmed directly for the first time.The lead author of the paper is an undergraduate student who invented...
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Mount Everest isn't the Earth’s tallest mountain
The world's tallest mountain technically is not Mount Everest.Mount Everest is the tallest mountain above sea level, but if we're talking sheer height here, base to summit, then the tallest mountain is...
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Everything you need to know about NASA's epic mission to Pluto
In January 2006, NASA launched the fastest spacecraft in history toward the dwarf planet Pluto. Now the spacecraft — called New Horizons— is hastening toward its destination and is scheduled to make...
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Scientists discover that Pluto has some of the craziest moons in the entire...
Pluto tends to hog all of the spotlight, but it's not the only distant world floating through space at 4.5 billion miles from Earth.Meet Pluto's bizarre moon, Nix. Named for the Greek goddess of night,...
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Here's the crazy plan to start building an inflatable habitat on the Moon in...
Last year, the European Space Agency (ESA) made history by landing the first ever spacecraft — called Philae — on a comet.The ESA's next big mission for the history books: Building the first Moon...
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Why 'The Martian' is going to be way better than 'Interstellar' or 'Gravity'
The first official trailer for the film adaptation of Andy Weir's "The Martian" is out and it looks like it's going to blow "Interstellar" and "Gravity" out of the water.To some, "The Martian" might...
View ArticleWatch NASA launch its giant flying saucer
The low-density supersonic decelerator (LDSD) is part of NASA's mission to get humans on Mars by 2035. The first stage of the vehicles launch involves a giant balloon that carries the craft up above...
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A SpaceX competitor just released plans they've been developing in secret for...
Since 2010, engineers have been secretly working in a warehouse located outside of Paris, France. But until now, few people knew what exactly they were up to.The warehouse belongs to one of Europe's...
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Why landing astronauts on Mars suddenly looks harder than ever before
On Monday, June 8, NASA tested their low-density supersonic decelerator (LDSD) spacecraft, which looks exactly like a flying saucer. The test took place off the coast of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile...
View ArticleWatch NASA scientists react to the parachute deployment of their 'flying...
NASA tested its flying saucer-like low-density supersonic decelerator (LDSD) today. This vessel could possibly be the spacecraft for future Mars landings.Unfortunately, the craft's parachute didn't...
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Elon Musk wants to put a million people on Mars
If a human colony of just five or six people on Mars still sounds like a distant future dream, just wait till you hear about billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's Mars colony plan.Musk is thinking much...
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Omega celebrated Apollo 13 with a party in an airplane hanger with George...
As I sit in the lounge awaiting a non-stop flight to Houston, I can't help but contrast the banality of my upcoming flight against the razor's edge reality of flying an Apollo mission. I'll be flying...
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