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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Software

Pre Developers Get Stupid-Simple Tool To Make Stupid-Simple Apps

1:28AM John Herrman | It’s no secret that Palm’s been taking it niiiice ‘n slow with their app strategy, whatever it is. Here’s their next baby step: Ares, a browser-based, drag-and-drop development toolkit for making simple apps. It’s a marginally good idea! More »
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Science

One Spectacular Big Bang

1:00AM Jesus Diaz | Wonder at the impressive technological prowess of the genius engineers at NASA, as brave Ares launches. Be amazed at the sheer beauty of the mighty rocket as it it breaks the sound barrier, thundering the skies of America. More »
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Weapons

Successful Ares First Stage Test Brings Hell To Utah

10:45AM Jesus Diaz | What 20,000,000hp engine can deliver 1.6 million kilograms of trust in a howling vomit from hell? The Ares’s first stage, that’s what. Not as hot as 8-kilometre pyroclastic plumes burning holes in the atmosphere, but hot enough. More »
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Vehicles

THIS Is The Biggest Rocket You’ve Ever Seen

11:30AM Rosa Golijan | The last time we looked at the Ares I-X, we only got to see the tip of what will be one of the world’s biggest rockets, but now it’s nearly done and right on schedule for a Halloween launch. [NASA] More »
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Science

From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen

2:30AM Wilson Rothman | May 2019: Our scheduled return to the moon. There’s plenty of labouring to be done on the Constellation Program before then, but the foundation is set. Here’s how you—as an astronaut—would experience the mission: More »
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Science

NASA’s Enormous Stir Welder Assembles Rockets With Friction Instead of Fire

5:40AM John Mahoney | Crocodile Dundee once said: “That’s not an Ares I rocket welder. This is an Ares I rocket welder.” He was obviously referring to this toy in NASA’s garage, which fuses aluminum-lithium 2195 alloy via friction. More »
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Vehicles

The Very First Tip of the Arex I-X Rocket Is Ready

12:20AM Jesus Diaz | This is the Ares I-X Launch Abort System, the mini-rocket that will be the tip of the main vehicle, responsible for saving the astronauts’ life in case of a major malfunction at launch. More »
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Science

Rogue NASA Science Team Pitches New Spacecraft Designs to Obama

2:00AM Jack Loftus | NASA, when it isn’t finding rogue space lights or mysterious BOOMs of the non-Steve Jobsian variety, is apparently sending rogue science teams to brief President-elect Obama on the future of the space program. More »
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Science

Cool Flash Graphic: Every Craft In NASA’s Constellation System, Deconstructed

5:00AM John Mahoney | Accompanying a long piece on the future of NASA’s Orion/Constellation system, the NYTimes threw together a nice Flash graphic detailing the individual components of what may or may not (ahem Financiapocalypse) replace the Space Shuttle. More »
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Science

Obama Considering Ares Cancellation, Orion Scale Back

11:29AM Jesus Diaz | NASA better come up with some good reasons to keep Ares and Orion alive, because Barack Obama is no JFK: The office of the President Elect has send them a questionnaire asking some tough questions about our favourite space program, Space News reports. You know, the one which is supposed to take Humanity back to the Moon and go to Mars. In fact, the questionnaire goes as far as asking if NASA could redesign the Orion spacecraft so it could be launched by the European Ariane 5 or the Japanese H2A: More »
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