News tagged with space travel
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The annihilating effects of space travel
Long distance space travel could create the ultimate 'killer entrance', devastating your destination and anything around the arriving spacecraft, according to calculations by Professor Geraint Lewis and two ...
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Virgin aims for first space launch within a year
British business magnate Richard Branson hopes to launch a vessel into space within the next 12 months, kicking off an era of commercial space travel.
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Sep 15, 2011 |
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IKAROS unfurls first ever solar sail in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Japan's IKAROS has rolled out its solar sail, the first ever deployed in space. JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, achieved the feat by rotating the craft rapidly and spinning the ...
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Jun 11, 2010 |
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Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars
(AP) -- Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Gravitational Space Corridors Could Slash Space Travel Costs (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying space travel possibilities have proposed that gravitational space corridors could be used by spacecraft, in much the same way as ships use ocean currents. Taking advantage ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2009 |
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First ever direct measurement of the Earth's rotation
A group with researchers of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, are the first to plot changes in the Earth's axis through laboratory measurements. To do this, they constructed the world's most stable ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Researchers complete 520-day mock mission to Mars
(AP) -- Pale but smiling, an international crew of researchers on Friday walked out of a set of windowless modules after a grueling 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Moscow's Mars volunteers to 'land' after 520 days
Six volunteers Friday will emerge blinking into the outside world after spending almost one-and-a-half-years in isolation at a Russian research centre to test the effects on humans of a flight to Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Microbe risk when rover wheels hit martian dirt
Earth microbes trying to make it to Mars must survive sterilization in NASA's clean rooms, harsh cosmic rays during months of space travel, and the Red Planet's unforgiving surface environment. But any bacteria ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 06, 2011 |
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SpaceX plans November test flight to space station
California-based rocket maker SpaceX said that it will make a test flight in late November to the International Space Station, now that NASA has retired its space shuttle program.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Daunting space task -- send astronauts to asteroid
With the space shuttle now history, NASA's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 23, 2011 |
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Last space shuttle crew almost done packing up
(AP) -- The astronauts making NASA's last shuttle flight are almost done packing up their gigantic suitcase for the ride home.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2011 |
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Atlantis blasts off on end-of-era spaceflight
Atlantis blazed a path into history Friday as it rocketed off the launch pad for a final time, marking the last-ever liftoff of the 30-year-old American space shuttle program.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 08, 2011 |
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SpaceX shows off its blackened 'Dragon' craft
Bearing brown and black scorch marks from its fiery tour in orbit in December, the Dragon spacecraft built by US company SpaceX went on display in the US capital on Thursday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Virgin to launch space tourism in 18 months: Branson
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said Monday that Virgin Galactic is on track to offer commercial space travel within 18 months, and that space hotels are next on the drawing board.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2010 |
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