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NASA Chief Wants to Cut Mars Travel Time in Half
Posted in Science on 3rd Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
Getting astronauts to Mars will take all the expertise the US can muster, including advanced propulsion technologies such as solar electric engines and perhaps even nuclear rockets.
NASA's new CubeSat concept for planetary exploration beyond low Earth orbit
Posted in Hardware on 21st May, 2015
by Alex Muller
A concept that would use less-expensive cubesats (tiny-satellites) to observe physical phenomena beyond low-Earth-orbit.
NASA Putting Out a 'Journey To Mars Challenge' to the public
Posted in Science on 12th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA has launched the 'Journey to Mars Challenge' asking the public for their ideas for maintaining a crew on Mars. Three winners will be awarded $5,000.
Fresh evidence for how water reached Earth found in asteroid debris
Posted in Science on 10th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
Water delivery via asteroids or comets is likely taking place in many other planetary systems, just as it happened on Earth.
Here's How We'll Terraform Mars With Microbes
Posted in Science on 8th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
Could our planet's toughest microbes change the face of Mars?