Space Missions

NASA working on faster-than-light space travel, says warp drives are ‘plausible’
2012.09.19.08:54
Trekkies rejoice: while real breakthroughs in warp drive design haven’t happened yet, we’re moving closer to making faster-than-light travel truly feasible.

Curiosity sets personal speed record, begins flexing its robot arm
2012.09.07.07:03
Three days ago, on sol 29, the one-ton rover completed its longest drive yet — and now, for the first time, Curiosity has extended its 7-foot (2.1m) robot arm, which plays hosts to some of the rover’s most important scientific instruments.

NASA funds supersonic bi-directional flying wing aircraft
2012.08.31.11:31
The commercial aircraft we all are used to flying in could get us to our destinations a lot faster if they were allowed to break the sound barrier. A 747 typically reaches speeds of 550mph, where as a supersonic craft can more than double that. Concorde, for example, used to fly at 1,350mph (Mach 2.04).

NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on Mars
2012.08.06.09:23
Earlier this week, the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity landed on Mars. We have a story investigating Curiosity’s software and hardware (which also includes the latest photos and videos of the Mars surface captured by Curiosity), and Sebastian also has a story explaining the effect that Curiosity will have on the future of human space travel.

It’s time to build the USS Enterprise
2012.07.14.13:38
Read about one engineer’s proposal that we should build a ship that resembles Star Trek’s USS Enterprise within the next 20 years. What do you think of his idea?

Fifty Years after Telstar: Why the first commercial satellite was so important
2012.07.12.14:50
Last week was the 50th anniversary of Telstar, the world’s first telecommunications satellite. There were earlier satellites, but those were designed mostly to prove the technological prowess of the United States and the Soviet Union. The Telstar was designed for a greater purpose: communication. More importantly, it was designed for communication other than pure political posturing. It would be a few years before we perfected the communication satellite–the geosynchronous orbit helped a lot–but then the entire planet started sharing the same global network. ExtremeTech explores why this matters.

Mystery Mini Space Shuttle X-37B Lands in California
2012.06.16.09:40
The mysterious unmanned mini-space shuttle on a classified mission has finally returned to earth.

Next-to-last space shuttle flight lands on Earth
2011.06.01.08:53
Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth early Wednesday, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA’s 30-year program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing.

Skylon space plane gets a thumbs-up
2011.05.31.22:56
A space plane that can take off and land from conventional runways is one step closer to reality.

NASA Planning on Getting up-Close and Personal with an Asteroid
2011.05.27.08:09
Five years from now, NASA will launch the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-Rex. The implications of this science mission are huge as it could help propel man to a nearby asteroid before 2025.

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