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Russia and Europe Want a Moon Colony; Why Is NASA So Focused on Mars?
Posted in Hardware on 25th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
12 Americans have put their boots on the Moon. But NASA has no plans to send humans back. Instead, NASA will shoot straight to Mars.
SpaceX will fly astronauts to the space station in 2017
Posted in Science on 21st Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
Boeing, another company that aspires to carry astronauts to and from the space station, received a similar order in May. No word on who will go first.
Mars 2020 rover may have a little flying helper drone
Posted in Science on 21st Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designing a helicopter-like drone that could scope out the landscape ahead of the Mars 2020 rover.
NASA's chemical 'laptop' would help find life on other planets
Posted in Hardware on 18th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA's newly tested Chemical Laptop is the first device built to detect amino acids and fatty acids (the telltale signs of life as we know it) on other worlds.
What is interplanetary dust and can it spread the ingredients of life?
Posted in Science on 17th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA reported that a cloud of dust was surrounding Mars high above its atmosphere. They ruled out Mars itself and its moons Phobos and Deimos as the sources of the dust.