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Sep 7, 2021

This New Reusable Rocket Ship Can Fly From Earth to Space Several Times a Day

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Designed to fly multiple daily missions, Dawn Aerospace’s Mk-II introduces a concept of true sustainability to the space race.

Sep 6, 2021

Physicist Designs Plasma Thruster That Could Make Space Travel 10 Times Faster

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It’ll take about seven months to send humans to Mars using today’s spaceships. That’s not exactly a quick jaunt, but it is doable.

Trips to other planets could take years, though, and if we want to explore the rest of our solar system — or the places beyond it — we’re going to need a faster way to travel.

Now, a physicist has designed a new rocket thruster that could potentially allow humans to travel 10 times faster in space — and it’s inspired by nuclear fusion.

Sep 6, 2021

Space: Investing in the Final Frontier

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Will declining launch costs, advances in technology and growing public-sector interest position space exploration as the next trillion-dollar industry?

Sep 6, 2021

GAME OVER! SpaceX INSANE NEW Starship To Reach Mars IN WEEKS!

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Sep 5, 2021

In 1953 a scientist predicted a man titled ‘Elon’ would lead humans to Mars and crown himself ‘Martian Emperor’

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“If we make life multiplanetary, there may come a day when some plants & animals die out on Earth, but are still alive on Mars,” Musk tweeted in mid-April.

What Musk probably didn’t know was that his destiny was already sealed. Not in the stars, but on paper.

In 1,953 a book was published that predicted plans for an “Elon” to take humans to Mars.

Sep 5, 2021

NASA’s Deep Space Network Looks to the Future

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The DSN is being upgraded to communicate with more spacecraft than ever before and to accommodate evolving mission needs.

Sep 5, 2021

Artemis I Mission Teams: The Crew Behind the Uncrewed Mission

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The first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft will not have a crew of astronauts on board, but there are several experienced teams of people behind the mission to ensure the success of the first SLS launch and Orion’s first trip around the Moon.

Sep 5, 2021

We may finally know where high-energy cosmic rays come from

Posted by in categories: chemistry, cosmology, space travel

High-energy cosmic rays have proven elusive… but we may have found their source.


Thanks to new research led by the University of Nagoya, scientists have quantified the number of cosmic rays produced in a supernova remnant for the first time. This research has helped resolve a 100-year mystery and is a major step towards determining precisely where cosmic rays come from.

While scientists theorize that cosmic rays originate from many sources — our Sun, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and active galactic nuclei (sometimes called quasars) — their exact origin has been a mystery since they were first discovered in 1912. Similarly, astronomers have theorized that supernova remnants (the after-effects of supernova explosions) are responsible for accelerating them to nearly the speed of light.

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Sep 4, 2021

2021 Space Symposium | Opening Ceremony

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The 36th Space Symposium began with an opening ceremony honoring outstanding individuals and organizations in the space community.

Among the honorees, the team behind NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter received the John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr. Award for Space Exploration. The annual award recognizes extraordinary accomplishments by a company, space agency, or consortium of organizations in the realm of space exploration and discovery.

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Sep 4, 2021

Incredible footage of a second-stage Falcon 9 burn captured during the recent CRS-23 mission

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You can also just see the first stage flip round on its way to A Shortfall of Gravitas. Credit: NASA.