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While on one hand astronomers are celebrating the cash cow of comet debris brought by Stardust spacecraft, some scientists are concerned with more than 9,000 pieces of space debris orbiting the Earth! Much of the debris results from explosions of...
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A space-age version of the rusty springs under old pickup trucks will help NASA fix the most pressing technical problem with its high-tech new rocket to send astronauts...
made popular Aug 19 2008
An interesting topic for thousand of auto design enthusiasts across the globe is to design a car that is completely different in style and manner while keeping the...
made popular Aug 19 2008
This article proposes an unusual way to land objects from orbit and probes returning from deep space. I won’t dwell on details best left for future study, but will...
made popular Aug 18 2008
Design is one of the most important aspects of car-making for it’s where the making of a car begins as they say it all begins on a paper and ends when the wheels are...
made popular Aug 18 2008
NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander has sent back the first-ever image of a speck of red Martian dust taken through an atomic force microscope, shown at a higher...
made popular Aug 17 2008
Experts are growing increasingly concerned that the United States will have to rely entirely upon Russia to take astronauts to and from the international space station...
made popular Aug 15 2008
NASA says it has terminated its contract with a Houston company selected in June to supply the agency’s next-generation space suit.
made popular Aug 15 2008
NASA has delayed the launch of an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to scout for potential landing sites for astronauts.
made popular Aug 14 2008
We usually associate the words ‘noise & fuel wastage’ with airplanes, but a new kind of air race sanctioned by NASA, held at Santa Rosa (California) changes...
made popular Aug 13 2008
NASA has abandoned plans to get its replacement for the retiring US space shuttles into service by 2013 because of a lack of additional funds and technical issues,...
made popular Aug 12 2008
NASA is not properly emphasizing safety in its design of a new spaceship and its return-to-the-moon program faces money, morale and leadership problems, an agency...
made popular Aug 11 2008
We have created amazing fuss and plenty of intrigue about Mars and even as the Red Planet is still being explored, NASA has decided that it will try and get close to...
made popular Aug 9 2008
The Mars Phoenix mission has finally managed to bring NASA back in to the spotlight.
made popular Aug 9 2008
One of the biggest problems facing the possibility of interplanetary journeys is the lack of a proper propulsion system.
made popular Aug 9 2008
This year marks an almost forgotten 40th anniversary: the conception of the device that ultimately became the PC. And no, it did not happen in California.
made popular Aug 9 2008
Preservationists are squaring off with the Air Force over the fate of a World War II-era building where researchers developed the first antigravity suits for pilots and...
made popular Aug 9 2008
Preservationists are squaring off with the Air Force over the fate of a World War II-era building where researchers developed the first antigravity suits for pilots and...
made popular Aug 9 2008
The Aviation Safety Reporting System _ a database maintained by NASA _ has reports from pilots expressing safety concerns about airline directives pressuring them to...
made popular Aug 8 2008
The discovery of highly reactive salts on Mars led to rumours that their presence precluded life there. But even if the salts originated on the Red Planet they do not...
made popular Aug 7 2008
In a dramatic reversal of policy, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Saturday told supporters on the Space Coast he no longer favors slashing NASA’s...
made popular Aug 7 2008
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Already applauded for all new challenges set by NASA, it is once again preparing to ramp up its Centennial Challenges program of space exploration and technology...
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