Archive for the ‘space travel’ category: Page 147
May 25, 2022
25% of New York’s streets could be converted as squares and cycle paths
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: space travel
NYC 25×25 is a plan proposed by Transportation Alternatives, which acts to transform a quarter of the current urban space available to cars: an area equivalent to thirteen Central Parks to be taken away from traffic.
May 24, 2022
50 years ago, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. joined forces to ensure astronauts could survive in space
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space travel
Could this happen today?
This document laid the foundation for modern space exploration and research. It is also a testament to a fading world order where nations worked together in space toward shared scientific goals despite their political differences.
Signed by President Richard Nixon and Premier Alexie Kosygin in the U.S.S.R on May 24, 1972, the agreement led to the first international crewed space mission, 1975’s Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
May 24, 2022
SpaceX States It Will to Get to Mars Before NASA While the Latter Lists its Objectives to Get There
Posted by Len Rosen in category: space travel
NASA lists objectives to get to Mars by 2040 while SpaceX states it will beat that date by a decade.
NASA releases a draft of objectives needed to achieve a human presence on the Moon and Mars by 2040. SpaceX says it will get there by 2030.
May 23, 2022
The DoD plans to launch two nuke-propelled spacecraft by 2027
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Two commercial enterprises have been awarded contracts by the DoD to develop the next generation of nuclear propulsion in space.
May 23, 2022
SpaceX looks to raise $1.7 billion in new funding, boosting its valuation to $127 billion
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space travel
May 22, 2022
10 years ago, one SpaceX launch showed NASA they could work with Elon Musk
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
“This mission heralds the dawn of a new era of space exploration.”
Ten years ago on May 22, 2012, Elon Musk’s SpaceX made history. The company became the fourth entity, after the United States, Russia, and China, to launch a spacecraft into orbit and, on May 31 of that year, return it back to Earth. The achievement fundamentally altered the course of the next decade of space exploration.
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May 20, 2022
Elon Musk calls report that he exposed himself to a flight attendant ‘politically motivated’
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
The article said that Musk had sexually harassed the woman in 2016 while getting a massage on a private jet while traveling for his aerospace company, SpaceX.
May 19, 2022
Scientists grow plants in lunar soil for the first time
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: space travel
For the first time ever, scientists have grown plants in soil samples collected from the Moon fifty years ago, a feat that could have implications not only for prolonged space exploration, but for plants trying to thrive in harsh conditions on our planet.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.
May 19, 2022
NASA Reveals Early Plans to Send Two Astronauts to Surface of Mars
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: chemistry, habitats, space travel
During a high-level talk on NASA’s objectives for human space exploration, we got an early glimpse of what a 30 day crewed mission to the surface of Mars could eventually look like.
It’s an exciting prospect that, while many years if not decades away, shows the agency’s commitment to fulfilling humanity’s dreams of setting foot on the Red Planet for the first time in history.
NASA director of space architectures Kurt “Spuds” Vogel outlined what such a mission could entail. The agency is envisioning a habitat spacecraft to make the months long journey there, which uses a hybrid rocket stage that combines chemical and electric propulsion.
