According to one leading astronomer, humans will never manage to travel to another planet beyond Mars. While robots constructed by humans might be capable of making further journeys, humans themselves will only make it to […]
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Russia Is Putting Forth Plans To Launch Monkeys To Mars And Women To The Moon
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has announced that it will send a team of trained monkeys to Mars in 2017 and send a crew comprised exclusively of women to the Moon in 2029. Roscosmos recently informed […]
One Woman Works To Ensure That Other Planets Remain Clean
Dr. Catharine A. Conley works for NASA as a planetary protection officer. In others words, her job is to keep planets, particularly Mars, clean. With all the human activity that is starting to take place […]
Hollywood Is Important To NASA’s Success Say PR Experts
NASA ‘s public relations (PR) machine is increasingly turning towards and becoming more reliant on Hollywood to keep the public, politicians and funding sources interested and excited about its work, according to PR experts. They […]
NASA Gives Manned Mars Mission A New Official Timeline
The long dreamed of trip to Mars by American astronauts has been given a timeline with NASA recently announcing that they have finished a thorough review of the planned mission, and everything is going according […]
New High Tech Filter Aims To Cut NASA Astronauts’ $250,000 Per Day Water Bill By Recycling Urine
When you gotta go in space, it’s a little different than back on Earth. Not only is the process ‘involved’ but what’s waste to your body is a valuable commodity. Astronauts aboard the International Space […]
Buzz Aldrin, The Second Man To Walk On The Moon, Is Getting Serious About Colonizing Mars
The second man to land on the moon is teaming up with Florida Institute of Technology on a serious project to colonize Mars within 25 years. A Mars colonization would involve building giant space ships […]
Six Astronauts Are About To Be Locked In An Isolation Bubble For 365 Days To Help NASA Prepare For Mars
This Friday a team of six scientists will lock themselves in a 1,700 square foot bubble and won’t emerge for a full year. The experiment, known as Mission IV, is the fourth in the HI-SEA […]
Mars Rover’s Selfie Shows Hard Working Robot Is Beginning To Show Its Age
The Mars exploring, miniature laboratory known as the Curiosity rover landed on Mars in 2012 and has been working hard ever since collecting samples and taking selfies to send back to NASA engineers. Earlier this […]
NASA To Test Mars Bound Flying Saucer Thursday
The United States has a rich history of flying saucers, not just from UFO reports, but actual experimental planes that flew, or rather hovered, in the 1950s. While those planes didn’t work out so well, […]