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These Awesome Dudes In Denmark Are Building Their Own Spaceship

So you want to go to space. You could wait indefinitely for Virgin to finish its project that will ferry people to the moon. You could save up your pennies to colonise Elon Musk’s future mars settlement. Or you could just say screw it and build your own damn spacecraft — like the guys behind Copenhagen Suborbitals, an open-source space flight project in Denmark.

23 October 2012

Science

Is This The Spaceship That Will Take Us To Mars?

Somewhere deep at NASA’s Marshall Space Center, in an unmarked beige hangar, there is a spaceship. A spaceship built with spare parts, scrap hardware from the International Space Stations, a left-over aluminium-lithium cylinder and even museum mockups. One day, it may become the vessel that takes humans to Mars.

19 March 2012

Science

First Look Inside America’s First Private Spaceship

In June 2010, SpaceX launched a simplified version of their Dragon capsule into orbit. It was the first private spaceship in history, and it was a complete success. Now they are human testing it, getting it ready for its first manned flight.

10 February 2012

Science

There Is A Spaceship Hidden In This Image Of Mars

This image was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter while flying over the Bonneveille Crater on January 29, 2012. There’s a spaceship hidden in plain view, sightly red because of the planet’s dust. Can you see it?

3 February 2012

Science

This Is How Spaceships Are Born

Have you ever wondered how the hell spaceships get made? I mean, how does something like the six-legged ATHLETE rover go from an engineering fantasy into an actual working thing?

13 August 2011

Science

Even The Orion Spaceship Wants To Have Fun In The Pool

Lockheed Martin’s Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle (MPCV) is still many years and years away from seeing the cold vacuum of space. Until then, it’ll see the cold water of NASA’s Langley testing pool, getting repeatedly dunked at 90km/h.

9 March 2011

Science

Who Gets The Space Shuttle Discovery When It Lands?

There’s a custody war brewing between interested parties over NASA’s space shuttle Discovery when it finally returns to Earth tomorrow for the final time. Houston’s Johnson Space centre, New York City’s Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, Seattle’s History of Flight Museum, Florida’s Kennedy Space centre, L.A.’s California Science centre, Dayton’s Museum of the United States Air Force and D.C.’s National Air and Space Museum are among 21 institutions vying to care for the shuttle once it’s retired. The cost? $US28.8 million.

31 January 2011

Science

NASA’s Wish List

With free-flying robots and antimatter engines, NASA’s “wish list” doesn’t read like the typical lists of wants and desires you might receive from a loved one. Which is great, because if NASA was jonesing for Pokemon we’d be in trouble.

9 October 2010

Gadgets

8 Amazing Garage Inventions

Jets, spacecraft and giant robots – some people build amazing things in their garages. Makes you feel a little self-conscious about that “cherry” 1981 Malibu and the stack of National Geographics you keep threatening to put on eBay, doesn’t it.

20 July 2010

Cars

SpaceShipTwo First Manned Flight Attached To WhiteKnightTwo

The day for the first solo flight of SpaceShipTwo – the first commercial suborbital tourism aircraft – is getting closer. Here, its crew is testing it for the first time. It’s still docked to its mothership – WhiteKnightTwo – but it’s a beautiful picture. [Autopia]

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