NASA researchers are developing a series of soft robot actuators to investigate the viability of soft robotics in space exploration and assembly.
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The first human Martian explorers will face huge risks, there’s no way around it.
It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
Feb 20, 2021
What’s behind SpaceX’s $74 billion valuation: Elon Musk’s two ‘Manhattan Projects’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, internet, space travel
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is now worth $74 billion and investors believe the company’s Starlink and Starship projects will drive that valuation even higher.
Feb 20, 2021
Ingenuity — The First Drone to Fly to Mars!!
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: drones, space travel
Feb 18, 2021
A Spanish startup is offering trips to space in helium balloons as a cheaper alternative to SpaceX
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space travel
Zero 2 Infinity wants to launch passengers 40 kilometers into space with helium balloons at a much lower price, at just over $130000.
Feb 18, 2021
Russia & China ready to sign deal to build first moon base after snubbing US
Posted by TJ Wass in categories: Elon Musk, government, robotics/AI, space travel
Shouldn’t NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration already be building a moon-base with Elon Musk at SpaceX as well as Russia and China? Congress should fund space travel.
RUSSIA and China are joining forces as they prepare to sign a historic deal to build the first moon base after they snubbed the US.
The two countries are to collaborate on the international lunar structure, which was thought up by China — the latest build in the space-race against America.
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Feb 17, 2021
China and Russia Agree to Collaborate on Lunar Base
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: space travel
Feb 17, 2021
Elon Musk’s SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
SpaceX completed another monster equity funding round last week, sources said, sending the valuation of Elon Musk’s company to about $74 billion.
Feb 16, 2021
Bill Gates: Unlike Elon Musk, I’m not a Mars person
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, space travel
Gates wants to focus on fixing problems on earth instead of traveling into space.
Gates said he’d rather spend money on measles vaccines than traveling to space in a rocket.