Colonizing Mars
“Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.” – Robert A. Heinlein, The
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Space
Plans for alien contact found wanting
Enormous satellite dishes make up the search party for extraterrestrial life, but in the event of success, should a welcome party follow? Astronomers
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Space cannon to shoot payloads into orbit
John Hunter, from the company Quicklaunch, which was set up by himself and two other scientists, bases its plans on previous work they
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ESA: Innovative Technologies from Science Fiction
Science Fiction (SF) literature, artwork and films are works of imagination, but often contain some elements of plausibility, with the story revolving around
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Water on the Moon: Permanent Human Habitat Next
Nasa’s experiment last month to find water on the Moon was a major success, US scientists have announced. The space agency smashed a
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Moving the Earth: a planetary survival guide
Elementary physics tells us that we actually can move the planets. Launching a rocket into space pushes the Earth a bit in the
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Boeing Joins Lockheed Martin On Blackswift
Boeing and ATK have joined the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works team bidding to build the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Blackswift
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Messy battlefields: Space war would cause massive space junk problem
Given the amount of debris a single ASAT weapon can create, as this illustration of last year’s Chinese ASAT test shows, imagine the
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Mankind’s secrets kept in lunar ark
IF civilisation is wiped out on Earth, salvation may come from space. Plans are being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” on the
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Missile-ready China warns U.S. against plan to destroy spy satellite
In response to a U.S. plan to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite, China has warned against threats to security in outer space,
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