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After almost 10 years of research, Leik Myrabo has claimed that his vision of building a laser beam-propelled “LightCraft” will be a reality by 2020. In April 1999 Myrabo wrote an article describing his ambitious plans of constructing an...
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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
AP, Cape Canaveral
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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This morning, when most of India dozed off in the comfort of their cots, ISRO scientists at the PSLV slowly took us into the history books. A 44-meter, 316-ton PSLV-11...
made popular Oct 22 2008
In this diagram, the sun’s oblateness has been magnified 10,000 times for easy visibility. The blue curve traces the sun’s shape averaged over a three month...
made popular Oct 3 2008
In a major breakthrough, Nasa’s Phoenix lander spacecraft has confirmed the presence of water on Mars. The lander’s onboard lab successfully identified the ice...
made popular Aug 1 2008
Richard Branson has triggered a new space race with the launch of a high-altitude jet name White Knight Two ‘Eve’ in the US. The jet will be used for his project to...
made popular Jul 29 2008
NASA is attempting to deploy and operate its first solar-sail powered craft NanoSail-D, made of extremely lightweight gossamer fabric designed to glide into space. It...
made popular Jul 25 2008
A comet-chasing spacecraft has been awoken during its years-long journey so it can study an asteroid it will fly past this September.European Space Agency mission...
made popular Jul 6 2008
Jules Verne ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) is a resupply spacecraft for European cargo. It’s fully automated docking with ISS on 3rd April 2008 was a first!...
made popular May 29 2008
Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft has relayed the very first Full Earthrise movie in high definition (HD) video, giving humans a uniquely beautiful view of our small blue...
made popular Apr 23 2008
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Malaysia is thinking of buying the Russian craft that carried the first Malaysian into space and putting it on exhibit to stimulate scientific interest among the...
made popular Nov 5 2007
Although, the object in the picture above looks like a sponge floating in space, it is actually Hyperion: a Saturnian moon. This is probably one of the weirdest looking...
made popular Jul 6 2007
NASA has given a grant to Dr. Mason Peck of the Cornell University to study the possibility of a Lorentz-Actuated Orbit (LAO) Spacecraft.
This spacecraft if developed...
made popular Mar 16 2007
What could be the big thumb on RFID than this one? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that it is testing the RFID technology to find...
made popular Feb 10 2007
Global Surveyor is one of the spacecraft orbiting Mars. It was launched on a two-year mission to systematically map Mars while orbiting the Red Planet on Nov. 7,...
made popular Nov 12 2006
Now, it’s the turn for the earth to save itself from the scorches of the sun! It will soon get an umbrella to reduce its temperature — by building a massive...
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Saturn the planet that has fascinated people through centuries yet again spellbound with its unusual behavior. With the new images, sent by Cassini spacecraft on the...
made popular Oct 12 2006
The three-year voyage is just about to end! Europe’s first mission to the moon - the European Space Agency’s SMART-1 - will crash-land in a cloud of dust...
made popular Aug 31 2006
Sun will be pictured for the first time, detailing the three-dimensional views of its massive, weather disrupting eruptions. Thanks to NASA. The agency will be...
made popular Aug 18 2006
A recent report says that the orbiting capsule of China’s Shenzhou VI spacecraft has returned successfully to earth after gathering scientific data in its 180...
made popular Apr 17 2006
Have you booked your piece of land on moon? What not yet? Don’t worry; you still have some time. It’s crystal clear that the development of new technologies...
made popular Apr 3 2006
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