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'Space elevator' could take humans into orbit A new space race is officially underway, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks salivating. The project is a "space elevator," and some experts now believe the concept is well within the bounds of possibility -- maybe even within our lifetimes. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNN |
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Howard Hughes' Nightmare: Space May Be Filled With Germs Fans of extraterrestrial life may have been disappointed when internet-fed rumors of Martian life ended in a NASA press conference on soil composition. But they can take solace in a newly popular theory that suggests the rest of space may teem with microbes. This on Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Howard Hughes' Nightmare: Space May Be Filled With Germs Fans of extraterrestrial life may have been disappointed when internet-fed rumors of Martian life ended in a NASA press conference on soil composition. But they can take solace in a newly popular theory that suggests the rest of space may teem with microbes. This on Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Space Tourist Who Wasn't I met Daisuke "Dice-K" Enomoto in Star City, Russia, in August 2006. Enomoto, 37, is slight with tired eyes and a shock of bleach-blond dyed hair. His idea of space travel comes from comic books and Star Wars. He grew up as a self-described otaku, coding his own computer games and dreaming of s Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Jan. 5, 1972: Nixon OKs 'Low-Cost' Space Shuttle 1972: President Richard M. Nixon announces that NASA will develop a space shuttle system, touting its reliability, reusability and low cost. The Mercury and Gemini programs had put Americans into Earth orbit. Apollo had been to the moon seven times — landing four times — and Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Jan. 5, 1972: Nixon OKs 'Low-Cost' Space Shuttle 1972: President Richard M. Nixon announces that NASA will develop a space shuttle system, touting its reliability, reusability and low cost. The Mercury and Gemini programs had put Americans into Earth orbit. Apollo had been to the moon seven times — landing four times — and Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon 1958: President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plot had thickened months before. Beep … beep … beep … They were steady, almost metronomic, signals coming from a tiny radio b Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon 1958: President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plot had thickened months before. Beep … beep … beep … They were steady, almost metronomic, signals coming from a tiny radio b Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gallery: The Space Suit Makes the NASA Astronaut : Photo: NASA"Form follows function." Nowhere is that dictum more inflexible than in the hostile reaches of outer space. So nothing hews to that dictum more closely than the space suit. Even as it has evolved over NASA's 50 years to adapt to increasingly sophisticated missions and changing spacec Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: The Space Suit Makes the NASA Astronaut : Photo: NASA"Form follows function." Nowhere is that dictum more inflexible than in the hostile reaches of outer space. So nothing hews to that dictum more closely than the space suit. Even as it has evolved over NASA's 50 years to adapt to increasingly sophisticated missions and changing spacec Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Aug. 20, 1960: Back From Space, With Tails Wagging 1960: Belka and Strelka, a couple of stray mutts impressed into the Soviet space program, become the first living creatures to return alive from an orbital flight. The Russians had been using dogs for experimental high-altitude flights long before Belka (Russian for "squirrel") and Str Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Aug. 20, 1960: Back From Space, With Tails Wagging 1960: Belka and Strelka, a couple of stray mutts impressed into the Soviet space program, become the first living creatures to return alive from an orbital flight. The Russians had been using dogs for experimental high-altitude flights long before Belka (Russian for "squirrel") and Str Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gallery: Next-Gen Space Gear for Humanity's Return to the Moon : Photo: Ingrid Barrentine/Wired.comBefore you can take your rover to the moon, you need to test it on Earth. This week, NASA engineers did just that at Grant County ORV Park in Moses Lake, Washington, which they chose for its similarity to the moon's terrain. As NASA takes i Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: Next-Gen Space Gear for Humanity's Return to the Moon : Photo: Ingrid Barrentine/Wired.comBefore you can take your rover to the moon, you need to test it on Earth. This week, NASA engineers did just that at Grant County ORV Park in Moses Lake, Washington, which they chose for its similarity to the moon's terrain. As NASA takes i Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Getting into space by broomstick The proposed space elevator project could be powered by a simple new approach, demonstrated using a broomstick. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > BBC |
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How China Loses the Coming Space War A year ago, China blasted a weather satellite out of orbit, and threw the international community into panic. But despite fears of a "space Pearl Habor," MIT's Geoffrey Forden finds, the United States could withstand China's worst assault above the skies. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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How China Loses the Coming Space War A year ago, China blasted a weather satellite out of orbit, and threw the international community into panic. But despite fears of a "space Pearl Habor," MIT's Geoffrey Forden finds, the United States could withstand China's worst assault above the skies. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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China launches three astronauts into space - United Press International MSNBCChina launches three astronauts into spaceUnited Press International - 1 hour agoJIUQUAN, China, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- China launched a spaceship carrying three Chinese astronauts into orbit Thursday for a three-day mission that may include a spacewalk, official media Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Arm to duel with Intel in the server space Arm wants to challenge Intel's server market dominance by plugging its multicore chip designs into servers, but the company faces an uphill battle, including the market's preference for x86 architecture and the lack of software infrastructure to support Arm's chips, a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Space shuttle carries Japanese lab into orbit CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Discovery blasted off a seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday to deliver Japan's huge new research laboratory to the International Space Station. Home > Rss Directory > General > Reuters |