Category Archives: Space

Europa

Posted on September 22, 2013 by

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Warp Drive Update

Posted on August 26, 2013 by

Below is a video from the third day of this past week’s Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress. Dr. White of NASA updated the progress of his experiments (at the NASA Houston space center) to create a tiny warp bubble (yes, like … Continue reading →

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SpaceX Update

Posted on August 15, 2013 by

Once again SpaceX flew their Grasshopper in Texas. According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Twitter, the goal of the test was to determine if the rocket could perform “hard lateral deviation, stabilize & hover, rapid descent back to pad.” … Continue reading →

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Europa

Posted on August 3, 2013 by

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Enterprise

Posted on June 29, 2013 by

On Pearl Harbor Day, 2009—64 years after the Japanese attack—the first commercial suborbital space ship was unveiled in Mojave, California. The then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the then New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson officially certified the name of the … Continue reading →

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Vostok

Posted on June 22, 2013 by

It has been more than half a century since Yuri Gagarin rode in a Vostok capsule into orbit and into history. On April 12, 1961 he became the first human being to make it into space. His Vostok 1 circled … Continue reading →

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Current Space

Posted on June 16, 2013 by

After a year orbiting the asteroid Vesta, the space probe Dawn is now on its way to the dwarf planet Ceres, slated to arrive there in 2015. In August, the car-sized Curiosity rover landed safely on Mars, joining the still … Continue reading →

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Going to Mars

Posted on June 15, 2013 by

On June 4, 2010 Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, launched their Falcon 9 rocket for the first time. The flight successfully placed its upper stage into orbit. The corporation had only been in existence for seven years. … Continue reading →

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Torino Scale

Posted on June 9, 2013 by

Most people, especially those of us living in California, have heard of the Richter Scale, which measures the intensity of Earthquakes. Much less well known is the Torino Scale. What is the Torino Scale? It is a scale designed to … Continue reading →

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Positronic

Posted on June 3, 2013 by

The science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote a series of novels and short stories about robots. Besides inventing the three laws of robotics, he also came up with the idea of the robots having brains running on positrons. He called … Continue reading →

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