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- Jun- 2021 -10 JuneProduct Reviews
How Risky Is It to Send Jeff Bezos to the Edge of Space?
A Blue Origin spokesperson declined to answer questions from WIRED about the kind of training the Bezos brothers will receive…
Read More » - May- 2021 -28 MayScience
NASA’s MOXIE Experiment Is Making Oxygen on Mars
It might be a long time before any astronauts land on Mars—NASA is talking about the early 2030s, while SpaceX’s…
Read More » - 14 MayProduct Reviews
Could You Really Climb the Spinning Ship’s Cable in Stowaway?
Let’s just make it simple: To achieve an artificial gravity of 0.5 g, you’ll need a radius of 450 meters…
Read More » - Apr- 2021 -23 AprilProduct Reviews
NASA Launches Astronauts to the ISS on a Reused SpaceX Rocket
Four astronauts blasted off to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral early Friday, marking NASA’s first-ever launch with a…
Read More » - 19 AprilProduct Reviews
NASA Lands Ingenuity, the First Ever Mars Helicopter
Very early this morning, NASA flew a small drone helicopter that its latest rover had toted to Mars, marking humankind’s…
Read More » - 9 AprilScience
The Thrusters Behind NASA’s Mission to the Asteroid Psyche
A satellite company named Maxar recently delivered a passenger-van-sized chunk of spacecraft to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. This…
Read More » - Mar- 2021 -29 MarchScience
It’s Finally Time to Take Out the Space Trash
Could the solution to eliminating dangerous space junk be a mini-fridge-sized spacecraft equipped with a big magnet, or maybe an…
Read More » - Feb- 2021 -18 FebruaryScience
NASA Lands the Perseverance Rover on Mars
Then the skycrane, a sort of hovercraft hooked to the top of the rover, would fire up its eight downward-pointed…
Read More » - Jan- 2021 -19 JanuaryProduct Reviews
NASA Is Training an AI to Detect Fresh Craters on Mars
For the past 15 years, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been doing laps around the Red Planet studying its climate…
Read More » - Dec- 2020 -9 DecemberScience
SpaceX Launches—and Crashes—Its Starship Mars Rocket
On Wednesday afternoon, SpaceX successfully launched—and nearly landed—a fully-assembled prototype of its next generation Starship rocket on a suborbital flight…
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