Everyone’s talking about the $2.5 billion Curiosity rover‘s “terrifying” Hollywood-blockbuster-worthy landing: seven knuckle-in-teeth minutes in early August during which its aeroshell-armored bulk will plummet through Mars’ thin …
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Ray Bradbury Didn’t Love All Tech, but He Loved What Mattered Most
In the 1940s, when a young Ray Bradbury began a series of stories that would eventually become The Martian Chronicles, man had yet to even send a satellite into space. Since then, six U.S.-launched landers have touched down on …
How Insect-Inspired Legs Could Help Robots Walk on Asteroids
James Cameron created a Titanic-sized stir when he invested in Planetary Resources Inc., an asteroid mining operation co-chaired by personal spaceflight pioneers Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson. While Planetary Resources might …
What Will NASA’s Rover of the Future Look Like?
Last week, NASA announced the formation of the Mars Program Planning Group, which — as its title would suggest — is aimed at getting us back to Mars. The hope is to get another robotic rover on the surface of the Red Planet …
Has Bezos Really Found the Apollo 11 Engines?
A discovery on the floor of the Atlantic may — or may not — be a treasured artifact.
Gas Attendant Robot Takes First Step Towards Refueling Satellites in Space
Two weeks ago, while the astronauts on the International Space Station were sound asleep, Mathieu Caron was carefully putting Dextre into place from the safety of the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) control center in St. Hubert, …
Robonaut: Celebrating NASA’s First Humanoid Robot in Space
At the press site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, one figure stood out among the crowd gathered to watch the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery last year.
via Robonaut: Celebrating NASA’s First Humanoid Robot in Space – TIME.
New Angry Birds Announcement from the International Space Station
Earlier, Rovio released a few hints of what to expect from Angry Birds Space. We knew that it would take place in… well, space, and that it would include some new birds and new physics.
Today, the company revealed some …
Robot Shakes Hand with Astronaut on International Space Station
In space, nobody can hear you be uncivil towards someone. That’s why it’s nice to see commander Dan Burbank and Robonaut 2 shaking hands in the middle of the International Space Station.
This little bit of robo-human relations …
NASA to Create High-Tech Space Harpoon for Science, Awesomeness
It’s the news that the world has been waiting for since man first considered the possibility of the space whale–and a development that will make you proud of the minds at NASA in a whole new way once more. Scientists at the …
Hacker Arrested for Causing $500,000 Worth of Damage to NASA
How much damage can one man cause the National Aeronautics and Space Administration? If the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism’s charges against the newly arrested Robert Butyka are to be …
How Will NASA Track the Largest Satellite Crashdown in 30 Years?
There’s a nearly 6-ton big-as-a-bus and pretty much dead climate satellite—the largest in three decades—about to smack uncontrolled into planet Earth. There’s also a chance, albeit a ridiculously small one, that someone could get hit by one of its several dozens pieces made up of titanium, aluminum, steel and beryllium—the biggest …