[ad_1] NASA has tested a new foldable heat shield Wednesday and it's basically an umbrella, but for the atmospheric entrance. ADEPT technology (Adaptive Deployable Entry Placement Technology) consists of a woven carbon …
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[ad_1] The commander of the International Space Station, Frank Culbertson, was the only American to have participated in the September 11th terrorist attack. When the station's commander, Frank Culbertson, began his shift …
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[ad_1] Derek Richardson September 12, 2018 On board the International Space Station, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, a member of the six-man crew of Expedition 56, captured this vision of Hurricane …
Read More »Scientists develop plan to colonize Mars
[ad_1] The idea of building a base for colonizing Mars and becoming an interplanetary species has had decades of debate and not much action, but at least there is now a plan. …
Read More »Astronauts Send Their Views on Hurricane Florence's "Nightmare" – Spaceflight Now
[ad_1] A member of the crew of the International Space Station took this picture of Hurricane Florence in the Atlantic Ocean on the morning of September 12. Credit: NASA The astronauts captured …
Read More »New find clears Madagascar's first settlers of wiping out world's largest bird | Science
[ad_1] Giant elephant birds may have coexisted with people for millennia. VELIZAR SIMEONVSKI By Andrew LawlerSep. 12, 2018, 2:00 PM Lying about 425 kilometers off the African coast, Madagascar was long thought …
Read More »Parachutes leave for Orion mission after completion of last fall tests
[ad_1] The atmospheric drag will absorb most of this speed, but it will still move at 300 mph (483 km / h), slowing down at subsonic speed. The latter must be reduced …
Read More »New map shows Antarctica as you have never seen before
[ad_1] LORNA THORNBER Last updated 12:18, September 13, 2018 US scientists have published what they say is the most accurate high resolution map of Antarctica ever created. The new map, called the …
Read More »Purdue's astronomers testify to the birth of a new star after the supernova | Campus
[ad_1] According to a press release from the university, Purdue researchers believe that the great brightness resulting from a recent supernova is due to the formation of a new star. Following the …
Read More »Explore Trojan asteroids of Jupiter | Astronomy.com
[ad_1] In 1974, a team of paleoanthropologists led by Donald Johanson discovered about 40% of his fossilized skeleton. She was a member of the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis and is probably the …
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