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No Bucks for NASA Without Buck Rogers
Guest article by Nina Lincoff An interview with Jeff Foust, Kathryn Thornton and Ian O’Neill. SpaceX Falcon 9 on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral (SpaceX) On Feb. 24, 2009, a quarter of a billion...
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Space Exploration Isn’t an Economic Stimulus. It’s a Humanity Stimulus
A scene from X3: Terran Conflict (©Egosoft) When I said this on Twitter today, it struck up a lot of support. It actually came out as a throwaway comment in Wednesday’s Astroengine Live when I was...
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Could US Space Tourism be Snuffed Out by Red Tape?
Here’s a problem we didn’t see coming. Actually, we might have guessed it could be an issue, but thought, “no way, this is space travel we’re talking about!” But yes, red tape might get in the way of...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Stalled Until Fall
In some ways, this was inevitable, but in others, it’s just plain frustrating. In January, the powerful Falcon 9 launch vehicle was hoisted vertically at the new SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral....
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Mining Asteroids: Not At Those Overheads
In The Future™, when mankind is Sufficiently Advanced®, nations, companies and entrepreneurs will be shuttling huge cargo spaceships to and from the asteroid belt. Asteroid mining is going to be the...
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What’s NASA’s Biggest Accomplishment of 2009? It’s Still Here.
A space station in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It's hard to believe that by 2015 we might not have any manned outpost in orbit (sci-fi writers never saw that coming). I was only half joking when...
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On Gingrich’s Moon Base Plan (and Why It Won’t Happen)
A base on the Moon? That would be awesome! But it can't be done for profit... yet (ESA). For more on this topic, you can listen to me chat with BBC 5live’s Dotun Adebayo (from “Up All Night” on Jan. 28...
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SpaceX’s Dragon: The Dawn of a New Age for Space Exploration?
SpaceX's Falcon 9 carries the Dragon capsule to orbit (NASA TV) This morning, at 12:44 a.m. PDT, a rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40. It wasn’t the...
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Epic SpaceX Dragon Mission “Highlights” Video
In May, SpaceX made history — the company launched an unmanned spacecraft, the Dragon, to the International Space Station. The Dragon performed flawlessly, berthing with the orbiting outpost,...
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Thanks, Elon. Humanity Just Sneezed Into the Solar System
“I, for one, welcome our new snotty overlords.” “Germs? What germs? I just got this Tesla waxed.” (SpaceX) If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll probably know my (conflicted) feelings about Elon Musk...
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