I am not the only person in the space commentary community to have missed this flight test, but kudos to Blue Origin. They got half of what they wanted (capsule recovery yes, fly-back booster lost)
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Science: Disciplines Collide to Discover Warp Fields?
h/t to MarsBlog Based on information here: http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/04/nasa-may-have-accidentally-developed-a-warp-drive/ And more in-depth technical discussion here: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36313.1860 It seems that work at Johnson Space Center (JSC) on an EmDrive, where microwaves are used to create thrust, may
Read moreAres vs. Luna – Should the Siblings Fight?
I am a very long-time supporter and member of the Moon Society, from way back in the 1990’s, and feel pretty strongly about the need to establish a beachhead on the Moon. There are a
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Leaving something permanent. One of the saddest things about the Apollo missions is that they didn’t leave anything permanent that made future missions any easier. When Apollo was canceled, all that was left were museum
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Providing more experience with on-asteroid operations. If the Rosetta/Philae mission should tell us anything, it’s that there’s still a lot to learn, from an engineering standpoint, about how to operate successfully on the surface of
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Providing the beginnings of a lunar gateway. It turns out that getting to and from lunar DRO, and to the lunar surface from a lunar DRO, isn’t massively different from getting to and from Earth-moon
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VASIMR Plasma Propulsion Small Fusion Systems Asteroid Retrieval In the past few months the three items of my extreme interest have hit the news, and it has me pondering if NASA may be putting together
Read moreIt May Not Be ARM Option B, But It Helps Light The Way
For more background on this mission: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security — Regolith Explorer spacecraft will travel to a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36), and bring at least a 2.1-ounce
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Developing technologies for a Phobos/Deimos large sample return. One of the keys to affordable exploration and settlement of Mars will be determining if Phobos and/or Deimos have water in them, and if so, how to
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