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Le Petit Prince or Little Prince is a robotic greenhouse concept that is specially designed to help the future exploration and expanding population in the Mars. This intelligent robot can carry and take well care of a plant inside its glass container, which is functionally mounted on its four-legged pod.
The robot is designed to learn [...]
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Tags: bot, CONCEPTS, Design, FARMING, GREEN, mars, Robots, SPACE, THE LITTLE PRINCE
This newly-released image shows the sun rising over Spaceport America. It hasn’t been built yet, but construction starts this Friday. It will be the beginning of the real future, the stuff dreams are made of.
Spaceport America will be the first spaceport in history, and it will host commercial operations by private space travel companies, like [...]
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Tags: GALLERY, mothership, SPACE, spaceport america, Spaceship two, Virgin, Virgin Galactic
Cassini’s continued mission
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is now a nearly a year into its extended mission, called Cassini Equinox (after its initial 4-year mission ended in June, 2008). The spacecraft continues to operate in good health, returning amazing images of Saturn, its ring system and moons, and providing new information and science on a regular basis.
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Tags: cassini, mission, nasa, Photography, SPACE
The idea of harnessing solar power from space has been around for a while; Asimov included it in at least two of his stories that I remember—but may finally be a reality come 2016.
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Tags: california, PG&E, solar, Solar Power, Solar space, solaren, SPACE, Space power
These spectacular photographs, taken from Spaceweather.com, capture the beauty of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis.
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Tags: Arctic Circle, aurora, BOREALIS, Lights, photo, sky, SPACE, star, sun
ENESS’ appropriately named Humble Telescope is an interactive installation that presents a 3D simulation of our entire known universe to anyone who dares peer in. Viewers simply point the “telescope” in any direction, and instantaneously they’re presented with what exists in that specific area of space.
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Tags: humble telescope, interactive, simulation, telescope
The ISS looked this way—with the fourth and final solar panel truss—as the space shuttle Discovery undocked yesterday. It’s almost as big as a Corellian corvette, but there’s still a long to do list
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Tags: Evolution, INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, ISS, SPACE
In a composite of images taken by the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile, the newest picture of the Carina nebula reveals glowing dust and brilliant star clusters in stunning detail. Carina sits about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation of the same name. The nebula gets its red and purple hues from hot hydrogen [...]
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Tags: Photography, SPACE, universe
Skylon Rocket/Jet Hybrid
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Tags: Hybrid, Jet, rocket, Rockets, Skylon, SPACE, Space Shuttle
If you had $15.6 septillion and 94 cents in your account, would you save the world from the economic crisis or build a Death Star, destroy the world, and move on to invade the galaxy?
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Believe it or not, there’s a company in New Mexico that has serious plans on the table to shoot this space tourist fishbowl into the sky by 2010. The design is a concept for now, but Armadillo Aerospace, with the blessing of the New Mexico government, hopes to build a working prototype by 2009.
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Tags: ARMADILLO AEROSPACE, FISHBOWL SPACESHIP, FISHBOWLS, NASCAR IN SPACE, NEW MEXICO, SPACE, SPACE TOURISM, SPACE TRAVEL, SUBORBITAL
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