the final frontier?
from SPACE.com Scientist Targets 2024 for China’s First Moon Walk China plans a manned lunar mission by 2024 that will include a walk on the moon’s surface, a top Chinese scientist was quoted as saying in a Hong Kong newspaper. The announcement by lunar program vice director Long Lehao shows long-term preparations are moving ahead […]
Read more "..Scientist Targets 2024 for China’s First Moon Walk.."“To put a human colony of four or five scientists on the moon for any extended period of time, it’s necessary to figure out how to produce the oxygen and water and propellant that might be required for simple life support, largely because it’s too darned expensive to get it all the way from Earth and stockpile it there,” says Dale Boucher, director of research and development at the Sudbury-based Northern Centre for Advanced Technology…
Read more "..Scientists work to colonize space.."from PhysOrg Rumblings on the moon could be problematic for lunar base As NASA envisions it, astronauts will return to the moon within the next decade or so. Unlike in the earlier, quick, Apollo visits, these astronauts will build a permanent base and prepare for an historic undertaking that will send explorers to Mars. As […]
Read more "Moon-quakes will make a perm. base hard?"from washingtonpost.com U.S. Planning Base on Moon To Prepare for Trip to Mars For the first time since 1972, the United States is planning to fly to the moon, but instead of a quick, Apollo-like visit, astronauts intend to build a permanent base and live there while they prepare what may be the most ambitious […]
Read more "U.S. Planning Base on Moon To Prepare for Trip to Mars"Water ice was expected in the polar caps, since they represent the largest known reservoirs of water on Mars. Estimates suggest that if they melted, they would cover the planet in a layer of water up to 33 metres deep.
But as it scanned the region around the south pole, MARSIS also turned up an unexpected ice source. It lies near the southern polar cap and is underneath a region of Martian surface that shows no visible signs of ice. The radar signals reveal what appear to be relatively thin layers of underground water ice layers that may contain water of a equivalent to half of that locked up in the entire southern polar cap.
Read more "..Big new reservoir of water ice suspected under Mars.."from CNN.com NASA seeks cargo flights to space station CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) — With the space shuttles due to retire, NASA is looking for private companies interested in taking over the potentially lucrative business of flying cargo and crew to the international space station. The U.S. space agency issued a solicitation for proposals on […]
Read more "..NASA seeks cargo flights to space station.."New Scientist Breaking News – Radar reveals ice deep below Martian surface … Ice bowl Johnson and colleagues have now revealed subsurface measurements of two regions in the planet’s northern hemisphere the mid-latitude lowlands called Chryse Planitia and the northern polar cap. They believe a 250-kilometre-wide circular structure that lies between 1.5 and 2.5 […]
Read more "..Radar reveals ice deep below Martian surface.."The one-two hurricane punch from Katrina and Wilma along with predictions of more severe weather in the future has scientists pondering ways to save lives, protect property and possibly even control the weather. While efforts to tame storms have so far been clouded by failure, some researchers arent willing to give up the fight. And […]
Read more "..U.S. Military Wants to pwn the Weather.."from The Washington Post Robots May Allow Surgery in Space Small robots designed by University of Nebraska researchers may allow doctors on Earth to help perform surgery on patients in space. The tiny, wheeled robots, which are about 3 inches tall and as wide as a lipstick case, can be slipped into small incisions and […]
Read more "swallowable surgical robots"man, those guys at Google don’t pause for breath, do they? Google confirms Ames plan / Search engine plans offices, partnership with space agency Google Inc. confirmed Wednesday that it will build up to 1 million square feet of offices at NASA Ames Research Center and collaborate with the space agency on research surrounding topics […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 