As startups vow to beat the once stubborn agency back to the moon, officials and analysts say NASA has begun to shift its priorities?and cash?toward a dependence on the growing independent market for spacecraft.
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The ancient catastrophe that gave birth to the Moon may have produced additional satellites that lingered in Earth’s skies for tens of millions of years.
Separate modelling work by Matija Cuk, an astrophysicist at the University of British Columbia in Canada, suggests small, asteroid-sized objects a few tens of kilometres across would have lasted the longest as Trojan satellites. Cuk estimates…
With the world teetering on the edge of a full-blown food crisis, it may be time to cut back on biofuel, said Barack Obama yesterday.
OH wow you mean OBAMA AND EXPERTS THINK THAT BIO FUELS ARE A BAD IDEA……. You mean like most people involved with the calculations to determine how much corn etc is needed to replace gas… This is not news this is pandering to fear mongering….
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A virtual guided tour of an orbit around the Earth.
Southern Canada is covered with a myriad of small lakes. If the sun is overhead, you can see the sun glint off the lakes, rivers, and streams—briefly lighting them up as the reflection point moves across the surface of the Earth with…
In a recent interview, Richard Branson outlined his vision for Virgin Galactic’s future. Once tourists are taken into Earth orbit, it seems possible that space hotels could be developed for longer stop-overs in space. He then went on to mention that short “sight-seeing” tours to the Moon could be started from these ultimate hotels.
By far the fastest mission to fly past the Moon was NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission. This mission had a speedy launch, rockets powering the probe to over 58,000 km/hr to give it a good start on its long trip to the outer Solar System…
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