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The space tourism industry is heating up. While the Galactic Suite, the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012, a team of students have unveiled plans for a new international space hotel as part of their Masters degree in..
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Filed under: Weird, Science Yesterday the three men who call the International Space Station home did something wholly unremarkable: They drank some water. I know,...
made popular May 25 2009
“What you guys represent is an example of what vision means in the space programme, always describing our willingness to stretch beyond currrent boundaries and to...
made popular May 21 2009
Filed under: News, Weird, Science Yesterday afternoon, some people in Arizona, USA, called the Federal Aviation Administration in droves to report an unidentified...
made popular May 21 2009
The idea of getting fuel from algae isn’t new, only this time, NASA wants to have a go at the idea. Fuel from algae can be a lot more practical than fuel from plants...
made popular May 15 2009
Astronaut Mike Massimino has sent the first tweet from space, making all the rocket buffs green with envy I presume.
From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling...
made popular May 13 2009
Here is yet another move to meet the global energy needs. The solar power generation is not a new concept, however, placing solar arrays in space to capture the maximum...
made popular May 4 2009
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NASA has chosen May 11 as the launch date for its last repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
made popular Apr 30 2009
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NASA may move up its final trip to the Hubble Space Telescope by one day.
made popular Apr 23 2009
Eco Factor: Plan to better the efficiency of tidal energy.
Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a cost-effective way to harness ocean tides...
made popular Apr 21 2009
Eco Factor: Hydrogen fueling station generates hydrogen using renewable energy.
NASA’s Glenn Research Center is leading a team of industry and university partners to...
made popular Apr 17 2009
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NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope has beamed back the first images of a patch of faraway sky in the Milky Way galaxy where it hopes to find Earth-like planets.
made popular Apr 16 2009
First it was the spectacular “Eye of GOD”… now it’s “Hand of GOD”. The amazing image was taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, which is orbiting...
made popular Apr 16 2009
Eco Factor: Greenhouse designed to grow plants and vegetables on lunar surface.
Arizona-based Paragon Space Development Corporation has developed a greenhouse that...
made popular Apr 16 2009
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One small step for NASA, one giant running leap for Stephen Colbert.
made popular Apr 15 2009
Movito looks like a sleek, hubless electric scooter, and that partly is what the concept is. But it can do something different, like transforming into a car. Designed...
made popular Mar 19 2009
The alluring aspect of concept vehicles, apart from being clean and green, is that they just give the glimpse of the modes of transportation, which of course is...
made popular Mar 18 2009
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Seven astronauts raced to the international space station aboard space shuttle Discovery on Monday, while NASA debated whether the orbiting outpost will need to move...
made popular Mar 16 2009
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NASA is fueling space shuttle Discovery again in hopes of finally getting its mission going.
made popular Mar 15 2009
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NASA still doesn’t know what caused a hydrogen gas leak that prevented space shuttle Discovery from flying earlier this week.
made popular Mar 14 2009
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NASA feels it has a good shot at sending shuttle Discovery to the international space station on Sunday following repairs out at the launch pad.
made popular Mar 13 2009
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Astronauts that are stationed at space stations or keep constantly visiting the bases for repair work are always aware of the dangers involved in their job. Their...
made popular Jun 9 2009
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata is about to start a fashion revolution – in space. The astronaut is testing new clothes developed by Yoshiko Taya and colleagues at...
made popular Mar 18 2009
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NASA has started beaming live video from just outside the International Space Station, but there’s a catch: The online feeds are available only when the...
made popular Mar 11 2009
After 10 years and spending $100bn, the world celebrated International Space Station’s 10th anniversary yesterday, November 20th 2008. Sixteen countries joined hands...
made popular Nov 21 2008
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Friends and family of the world’s next space tourist _ including his astronaut father _ watched Friday as the rocket for the voyage was placed on a launch pad in...
made popular Oct 10 2008
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The company that sends wealthy tourists to the International Space Station says that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has paid $5 million to reserve a seat on a future...
made popular Jun 11 2008
Having spent an ungodly amount of money and resources in trying to train astronauts to survive in space, you definitely don’t want them getting drunk and spacewalk...
made popular Jun 3 2008
When I get really down after reflecting on the state of the world: a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, disengagement and heightened tension with North Korea and Iran, a...
made popular May 6 2008
Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, and South Korean spaceflyer So-yeon Yi pulled in at the station aboard their Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft, which docked...
made popular Apr 11 2008
When the spacecraft Endeavour blasts off in yet another voyage to the International Space Station, it will have one more passenger in addition to it’s crew of...
made popular Mar 10 2008
Yes, the legendary author Jules Verne still has a connection with space, not just courtesy his books like the classic-Around the world in 80 days, but because the...
made popular Mar 8 2008
Do the stars interest your child? Does the planets capture your twinkling star’s imagination? Or do you find him lost in the thoughts of the animal safari? Time...
made popular Jan 1 2008
It was a teary farewell for the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle Discovery and the International space Station, as Discovery makes its return journey to mother...
made popular Nov 5 2007
It seems like space tourism is getting closer and closer to reality. Few days back I wrote about Galactic Suite, the first hotel planned in space that is expected in...
made popular Sep 6 2007
Russia’s Mission control spokesperson stated that a Russian cargo ship has successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after a three-day orbit...
made popular Aug 6 2007
Space survival gets a whole new meaning with NASA fitting in a fancy new $19 million toilet on the International Space Station. The high-tech toilet has been purchased...
made popular Jul 7 2007
NASA expects to have twice the room it needs on the international space station after looking at a proposal to use the station as a “National Laborartory”...
made popular Jun 26 2007
June 8 will be the date that engineers and astronauts of space shuttle Atlantis would have been waiting for. Managers at the space agency have announced that the first...
made popular Jun 1 2007
Russian cosmonauts and an astronaut stationed at the International Space Station are soon to receive their 2.5 tons of daily required amenities - be it oxygen, water...
made popular May 14 2007
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