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2/26/2010 8:36 PM
Exploring and developing space may be expensive, but the rewards greatly outweigh the costs.
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2/17/2010 7:19 PM
Let's go to the Moon or Mars! Wait, you want to be able to come back? That could be a problem...
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2/13/2010 12:02 PM
One of the SPESIF abstracts talks about ways to extract energy and propulsion from the quantum vacuum energy.
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2/9/2010 11:51 PM
One of the SPESIF abstracts talks about using entangled photons to communicate faster than the speed of light.
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2/7/2010 12:01 PM
NASA is seeking input from the general public on the creation of an Open Government Plan. Here is your chance to put your ideas in front of the government!
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2/7/2010 11:56 AM
One of the SPESIF abstracts discusses a proposal for harvesting near-Earth asteroids for resources and other uses.
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2/6/2010 2:18 PM
One of the SPESIF abstracts discusses a proposed magnetic levitation launch system for low-cost access to orbit.
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2/5/2010 5:50 PM
Later this month (February 23-25), Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory will host the Space, Propulsion, and Energy Sciences International Forum (SPESIF). During the three days of this conference, there will be a sizeable number of presentations of interest for Getting There From Here. The range of these talks is broad, from the near-term scale of technologies for improved thermodynamic materials for use in space exploration, to more economical means of reaching orbit, to theoretical means of travelling and communicating faster than the speed of light. In this series, we examine some of the abstracts of talks that will be presented at this conference.
In Part Four, we discuss some of the abstracts related to travelling beyond our Solar System.
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By admin on
2/5/2010 7:35 AM
Later this month (February 23-25), Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory will host the Space, Propulsion, and Energy Sciences International Forum (SPESIF). During the three days of this conference, there will be a sizeable number of presentations of interest for Getting There From Here. The range of these talks is broad, from the near-term scale of technologies for improved thermodynamic materials for use in space exploration, to more economical means of reaching orbit, to theoretical means of travelling and communicating faster than the speed of light. In this series, we examine some of the abstracts of talks that will be presented at this conference.
In Part Three, we discuss some of the abstracts related to theoretical means of manipulating gravity.
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2/5/2010 12:03 AM
Hot on the heels of the new NASA shift away from the Constellation program to stronger support for commercial enterprises becoming more active in space, the agency yesterday announced $50 million in seed funding toward commercial crew initiatives. The money, part of the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program, is being split between five companies: Sierra Nevada Corporation, Boeing, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Paragon Space Development Corporation.
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