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Me Being Run Over by a Mars Rover Prototype

Motorcycle crashes aside, here’s another case of Man/Machine collision: The JPL designed NASA Mars Rover climbing over a viscous, blubbery, greasy surface known as My Back. The JPL lady said this thing only weighs 10-pounds, but it kind of felt heavier. The final Mars rover has six wheels, but the first prototype had eight as…

Tech News Brian Lam

Google’s Jet Blasts Off From NASA

If you’re a Google god like Larry Page or Sergey Brin, you already own a double-wide Boeing 767-200 for personal use—which is less the equivalent of a stretched Hummer limo than, say, a stretched school bus limo. Once one has reached the level of stretched school bus limo airplane, how much higher can luxury ascend?…

Tech News Mark Wilson

NASA Develops Inferno-Proof Chips

Today’s processors have one fundamental weakness: heat. But NASA may have overcome that issue with their new super heat-resistant, silicon carbide chips that can operate in temperatures up to 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit. An early test proved highly successful, as NASA’s chip operated at 932 degrees Fahrenheit for 1,700 hours of continuous operation. And like most…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

NASA Mistakes Star Wars for Reality, to Launch Lightsaber Into Space

Now the US space program has really jumped the shark. The Space Shuttle Discovery will carry into space Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, a prop used in Star Wars. The entire journey of this movie prop will be accompanied with crazy fanfare—from prop shop to space and back—all in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the 1977…

Tech News Charlie White

Video of NASA Testing its New Rocket Engine in the Mojave Desert

This is NASA’s new rocket engine, the liquid-methane-powered 5M15, being tested in the Mojave desert. It runs on methane for a few reasons: “It’s cheaper, it requires much less insulation and it exists on several planets NASA hopes to travel to.” Yes, this is the rocket that’ll take our grandkids to Mars. You’re gonna want…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

Exciting NASA Air Competition Full of Dull Planes

NASA handed out $250,000 in prize money this weekend to aircraft designers who competed in a competition to create personal air-vehicles. But don’t be fooled by the picture and think that the event was full of flying cars, experimental planes and UFO-shaped discs—all the entrants were standard-looking planes, as you will see in the videos…

Tech News Msparkes

NASA Sponsoring $2M Flying Car Contest; Time Machine Contest Coming Next

Despite the skepticism that justly confronts any mention of a “flying car,” what with the disaster that expecting people who can barely drive a car to learn to fly a personal plane would be, NASA seems pretty optimistic about the idea. In fact, they’re holding a $2 million contest to entice people to design flying…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

NASA Says iPhone Is Not A Suitable Business Tool

NASA has declared the iPhone not ready for business use by their employees. Instead, they’re planning on supporting the Blackberry 8800 or Palm Treo 750. [InformationWeek] Image via Wired

Tech News Adrian Covert

Our Plan For Landing On An Asteroid

FACT: An asteroid will one day kill us all. That’s why NASA asked a 3D imaging company named DigitalSpace Commons to simulate a landing on an asteroid with modified spacecraft, pictured here. I’m partial to the production levels of Armageddon, but we’re guessing this simulation is a bit more accurate. We still recommend NASA brings…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Space Walk Gallery Makes Us Burn With Envy

The guys over at Fogonazos have compiled a list of the ‘Top 10 Best Spacewalks in History’ and the images are absolutely stunning. The pictures are so inch perfect we thought they were photo-shopped; amazingly, they are all genuine. If you’ve never looked back on your decision to become a full time gaming-bum instead of…

Space & Spaceflight Haroon Malik

Space Spiders (1979)

The 1979 book Toward Distant Suns features the “Space Spiders,” illustrated below. Space Spiders are designed to help build the space colonies of the (paleo)future. Use of Space Spiders to build a space colony of the Stanford torus type. In the foreground mobile teleoperators carry rolls of aluminum to restock the Spiders’ supplies. Detail shows…

Tech News Matt Novak

Revolutionary Biosuit Could Be the New Face of Space Wear

A professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT has come up with a revolutionary new space suit that she hopes will take the place of the traditional, bulky number worn by astronauts over the past four decades. Although still only a prototype, Dava Newman’s spandex and nylon Biosuit will offer space travellers…

Space & Spaceflight AddyDugdale

NASA Drops $19 Million on Toilet, Doesn’t Let Russians Use It

Tension is bound to flare over the $19 million toilet NASA purchased from Russian aerospace firm RCS Energia, as only half of the International Space Station will enjoy the upgrade—the American side. The toilet justifies its steep price by being able to recycle urine as drinkable water, Waterworld-style. The Russian half of the station is…

Tech News Kevinhall2

Liquid Mirror for Lunar Telescope is Made of “Ugly Ions”

What you are looking at is a mirror made of ionic liquid, infrared-reflecting silver nanoparticles mixed with a “highly viscous salty liquid called imidazolium ethylsulphate” or Bob for his closest friends. It’s going to be used for the Lunar Liquid Mirror Telescope, something that wasn’t possible until now for several reasons. Current liquid mirrors are…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Future NASA Rover Will Scare Aliens with Rock-crushing Lasers

Good old NASA is giving their Mars Rover a hardcore makeover. The next-gen Rover (the Mars Science Laboratory) is gonna weigh in at 1,800 pounds and pack rock-crushing lasers. As a matter of fact, it’s gonna pack so much tech it’ll have to run on nuclear power rather than solar arrays (like previous Rovers). So…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Video: Solid-State Aircraft Flaps Its Wings Like a Bird

If you can get past the annoying voiceover (sorry, Ecogeek) then this video showing off Ohio Aerospace Institute NASA’s solid-state aircraft concept is pretty cool. They’re engineless, solar-powered and somewhat creepily resemble the mass production Evangelion units in flight, so it’d be sweet if these puppies (birds?) ever saw the light of day to make…

Space & Spaceflight Matt Buchanan

NASA’s Moon Mission “Trailer”

NASA has clearly been spending their funding wisely. The above video is a, well, teaser trailer for the next planned mission to the moon. Complete with music and editing reminiscent of Battlestar Galactica and animation that looks to have been made around the same time as the original Toy Story, it makes me really want…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

‘Humanization of space’ envisioned in shuttle’s wake (Christian Science Monitor, 1979)

A November 2, 1979 article by John Yemma in the Christian Science Monitor outlined Jesco Von Puttkamer’s vision of America’s future in space. Von Puttkamer was a planner for NASA and even consulted on the first Star Trek movie. By the late ’80s or early ’90s, a huge solar power satellite may be constructed to…

Tech News Matt Novak

NASA Getting a Little Sumthin’-Sumthin’ from Virgin

NASA and Virgin Galactic (two companies that make for strange bedfellows) are loosely teaming up to develop hypersonic commercial planes that’ll send common plebes like you and me out into space. You see, NASA has the brains to make these planes, whereas Virgin has the cash flow. Together they can make planes that’ll travel at…

Space & Spaceflight Louis Ramirez

SuperBot Robot Can Construct Itself

This robot, named the SuperBot, can do some pretty super, and unique things. The SuperBot has the ability to build itself, in a way. It can be constructed into a variety of different figures to accomplish different tasks, for example as a walking unit, rolling unit, snake unit, etc. Each individual block is a robot…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Me Being Run Over by a Mars Rover Prototype

Google’s Jet Blasts Off From NASA

NASA Develops Inferno-Proof Chips

NASA Mistakes Star Wars for Reality, to Launch Lightsaber Into Space

Video of NASA Testing its New Rocket Engine in the Mojave Desert

Exciting NASA Air Competition Full of Dull Planes

NASA Sponsoring $2M Flying Car Contest; Time Machine Contest Coming Next

NASA Says iPhone Is Not A Suitable Business Tool

Our Plan For Landing On An Asteroid

Space Walk Gallery Makes Us Burn With Envy

Space Spiders (1979)

Revolutionary Biosuit Could Be the New Face of Space Wear

NASA Drops $19 Million on Toilet, Doesn’t Let Russians Use It

Liquid Mirror for Lunar Telescope is Made of “Ugly Ions”

Future NASA Rover Will Scare Aliens with Rock-crushing Lasers

Video: Solid-State Aircraft Flaps Its Wings Like a Bird

NASA’s Moon Mission “Trailer”

‘Humanization of space’ envisioned in shuttle’s wake (Christian Science Monitor, 1979)

NASA Getting a Little Sumthin’-Sumthin’ from Virgin

SuperBot Robot Can Construct Itself

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