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NASA’s Plan To Have A Moon Base By 2024
The goal is to have humans on the moon by 2024, something that may take a Herculean effort to make happen.
Curiosity Rover On Mars: What Is It Doing Right Now?
Seven years on the Red Planet. What exactly is NASA’s current goal for the Curiosity rover and what has it discovered?
Autonomous Helicopter Drones May Assist NASA’s Exploration Of Mars, Here’s How
NASA’s rovers have provided a wealth of information about Mars over the years and continue to ramble on. Devices like …
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NASA Scrubs Orion Test Flight, Will Try Again Tomorrow
I got up bright and early this morning to watch the first test flight of the Orion spacecraft, which was …
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ESA’s Cosmic Vision Includes New Planet-Hunting Mission
NASA likes to boast about its planet-hunting capabilities thanks to both the Kepler and the Hubble telescopes. But NASA’s not …
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There Might Be Water Flowing On Mars Right Now
Earlier in the Curiosity Rover‘s travels around the Red Planet it gleaned a bunch of information about the water-soaked soil, …
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NASA Program Aims To Put Commercial Landers On The Moon, Stirs Property Rights Debate
NASA recently announced a new initiative called Lunar CATALYST (Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown) and is seeking proposals …
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge Narrows The Field To Eight Finalists
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, where teams compete to design and develop disaster response robots, kicked off in June, with the software-based …
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Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s Superhero Robot
We’ve done lots of posts here on GFR about NASA, many of which bemoan the state and the budget of …
Ex-NASA Engineer Creates Matrix-Style Bullet-Time Effect
If you’ve ever seen the Matrix (and honestly, who among you hasn’t?), you’ve likely marveled at the special effects, particularly …
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Sally Ride Receives Posthumous Presidential Medal Of Freedom
Too often, one’s contributions to the world don’t get their honor until it’s too late. Sally Ride, the first female …
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Space Racers And NASA Aim To Take Over Preschool Entertainment
If you have children you’ve probably been inundated by one program after the other that teaches kids how to count, …
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NASA Prepares Orion For Unmanned Flight Tests
Despite the government shutdown, NASA was able to continue working on the Orion, NASA’s next manned spacecraft. Before any humans …
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Read President Jimmy Carter’s Voyager Letter To Extraterrestrials
The Voyager 1 probe made history in 2013 when scientists agreed that it had finally, officially ventured beyond our solar …
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Scott Carpenter, The Second Man To Orbit The Earth, Passes Away At 88
As we enter a new era in space travel, we are reminded of those who pioneered the initial space race, …
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The Moon Is Covered In Human Feces
Those of you who saw Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity this past weekend—and if the box office numbers are any indication there …
NASA Funds Ten Space Tech Proposals
It’s good to see that even though NASA isn’t swimming (or flying) in dough, it’s still able to fund space …
The Moon Shows New Evidence Of Subsurface Water
When it comes to space science, finding water on the moon has been something of a holy grail to astronomers …
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Humans Are Stupid For Aliens To Contact
Neil DeGrasse Tyson might not think all that much of the human race. Why? Well he explains it Fermi Paradox …
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Wrath Of Khan Director Penning TV Pilot About The Origins Of The Space Race
Whenever the American space program is featured in film, it’s usually in the context of a huge shuttle launch or …
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Sally Ride Honored With Posthumous Presidential Medal Of Freedom
Sally Ride was the kind of person about whom you’ll probably never see a negative word written. A physicist, astronaut, …
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The First Battle Of Planetary Science Budget Cuts Begins!
I’m pretty sure some of you guys out there are fans of Sid Meier’s Civilization series of PC strategy games, …
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Seventies NASA Concept Art Imagines The Future That Still Hasn’t Arrived
We’ve often complained that the future we were promised never arrived. We don’t live in the floating cities or drive …
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NASA Is Making Star Trek Holodecks And Motion-Controlled Rovers
Holodeck tech coming to a space program near you? You wouldn’t expect NASA to be a crowd-pleaser at this year’s …
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Americans Overly Optimistic About NASA Putting Humans On Mars
There’s a thin line between optimism and flat-out lunacy. Optimism is when you look at a glass half-filled with water …
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Last Video Of The Moon From Crashed NASA Spacecraft Ebb And Flow
If this were a real horror movie, and not that exercise in plot procrastination that was Apollo 18, then this …
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The True Story Behind Neil Armstrong’s First Words On The Moon
The famous first line uttered by the first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, is a strong reminder of how …
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Can A Paintball Save The Earth From An Asteroid Collision?
If an asteroid is barreling towards the Earth, Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, and their team of oil-drilling roughnecks won’t be …
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Scientists Discovered A Super-Compact Star System
Astronomers and researchers using NASA’s pioneering Kepler space observatory have discovered what they are describing as the most “crowded” alien …
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See Real NASA Astronauts In Famous Sci-Fi Movie Posters
One would imagine being an astronaut is a high-stress occupation. Despite being quite literally a dream job for many at …
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