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Popular Mechanics
July 2, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
The Truth About Water on Mars: 5 New Findings Phoenix reveals much about water, but there's a lot left to learn -- especially about the big question: the possibility of life in Mars.   |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009
Courtney E. Howard |
Honeywell Engineers Design COTS Hardware Into Orion Advanced Avionics Ray Crum, technical director of the NASA Orion space program at Honeywell Aerospace, discusses integrating commercial electronics into the Orion spacecraft crew exploration vehicle. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009 |
EaglePicher Supplies Nickel Hydrogen Batteries to SICRAL 1B Italian Defense Communication Satellite Thales Alenia Space officials contracted EaglePicher to supply nickel hydrogen batteries for SICRAL 1B, a military communications satellite which was launched from a sea platform at an equatorial launch site in the Pacific Ocean. |
Chemistry World
July 2009
Ned Stafford |
Hoisting the solar sail Flying through space by catching sunlight on ultra-thin sails could revolutionize space travel - and the idea could soon take off. |
Popular Mechanics
June 25, 2009
Lisa Merolla |
High-Tech Telescopes Yield New Galactic Photos: Gallery Space photos from advanced telescopes provide new views of the cosmos. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Aldrin & Noland |
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives. |
Science News
July 4, 2009
Ron Cowen |
Galactic Black Holes May Be More Massive Than Thought Predictions and observations could resolve seeming mismatch between close and distant giants |
Science News
July 4, 2009
Ron Cowen |
Astrometry Nabs An Exoplanet Long-proposed search method finally finds what it's been looking for |
Science News
July 4, 2009
Sid Perkins |
Solar System's Future Could Be Bumpy Study calculates the odds that two planets collide or one crashes into sun in the next 5 billion years |
Science News
July 4, 2009
Ron Cowen |
Betelgeuse Shrinks The red supergiant has lost 15 percent of its size |
Science News
July 4, 2009
Ron Cowen |
Alien Visitor From Afar Nearby star may have an extragalactic lineage |
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NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Kate Wong |
Scientific American recommends 3 books about the moon Also: Becoming Human, and Amazing Animals |
Popular Mechanics
June 17, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Do We Really Need Another Satellite Orbiting the Moon? It is a tale of two satellites, a shared destination, and two very different missions. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Harrison H. Schmitt |
Space Geology: From the Moon to Mars The only scientist and field geologist ever to visit the moon offers some pointers to those who will one day visit Mars |
Scientific American
July 2009 |
John Rennie Recollects the Moon Landing Our editor in chief looks back on the Apollo 11 mission as well as his years with Scientific American |
Chemistry World
June 15, 2009
James Urquhart |
Meteorite sheds light on birth of the solar system French and Italian scientists have analysed a meteorite and discovered that it contains a unique and primordial rock fragment |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Morgan Lord |
NASA Builds World's Largest Space Parachute for Martian Landing When the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover lands on Mars in 2012, it will face a unique obstacle |
Popular Mechanics
June 8, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Vaccines in Space: Taking Biotech to Microgravity Labs Astronauts pursued a commercial drug experiment aimed at finding a vaccine against a deadly staph infection besetting hospitals. |
Popular Mechanics
June 4, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Private Space to the Government: "Get Out of the Way!" As the private space industry comes of age, industry insiders say the U.S. government is stifling private money investment. Here, we report on the mood at the Space Business Forum in New York City. |
Popular Mechanics
June 1, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Footage in the Sky: The Truth Behind NASA's "UFO" Videos The scenario goes like this: Its 1996; you're an astronaut and you're looking at a UFO. This is quite possibly the biggest, most game-changing scientific discovery in the history of mankind. |
Popular Mechanics
May 28, 2009 |
Apollo 11 Radio: Sound Bites From the Voice of America Sessions When Rhett Turner's voice broadcast went out from a Houston studio in July 1969, describing in clear, deliberate language the events of Apollo 11, it was heard over shortwave radio by people in dozens of countries around the world |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Elon Musk |
Risky Business Why Mars is more important than cosmetics and why a failed launch is also a partial success |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Susan Hassler |
Why Mars? Why Now? Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts took humanity's first baby step into the cosmos. It's time to take the next one |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Guterl & Heger |
Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Monica Heger |
What to Wear on Mars Those bulky Apollo-era space suits are so yesterday |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Anatoly Zak |
A Russian Return to a Martian Moon Russia hopes to reignite its deep-space program with a mission to Phobos |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
David A. Wolf |
The Kind Of People Who Will Go To Mars They won't lack fear -- they'll be able to operate well in the face of it |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Olivier L. de Weck |
What To Pack For Mars A successful mission requires a well-planned supply strategy |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Sandra Upson |
Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Robert Zubrin |
How to Go to Mars--Right Now! Human exploration of Mars doesn't need to wait for advanced rockets, giant spaceships, or lunar base stations |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
James Oberg |
Could China Get to Mars First? Maybe -- if it adopts a less top-down approach |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Sweet |
Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Prachi Patel |
One Team's Plan to Win the Google Lunar X Prize For the Carnegie Mellon team vying for the Google Lunar X Prize, failure to launch -- and land -- is not an option |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
India Joins League of Lunar Nations Last November, India reached the moon, the fifth country to do so after the United States, Russia, Japan, and China. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Joshua J. Romero |
Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
David A. Mindell |
The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut How do you justify human spaceflight? |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
The Amazing Orbiting Garriotts In 1973, Owen Garriott made electrical engineering history as the first EE astronaut to travel into space, spending 60 days aboard Skylab, the U.S. -- run space station. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Burton H. Lee |
The Investor's Guide to Space How to make profits that are out of this world |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Jamieson & Norberg |
The Mars Challenge Human exploration of the red planet will inspire new generations of engineers |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
My 10 Favorite Mars Novels Renowned sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson reviews a century of Mars fiction |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Glenn Zorpette |
Waiting for the Great Martian Movie We watch all the movies about Mars so you don't have to |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
Esther Dyson, Space Tourist in Training When IEEE Spectrum caught up with Dyson a few months ago, however, she was wintering in Russia as she prepared for a possible visit to the International Space Station. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Sweet |
Q&A With Jeremy Curtis UK space expert talks about cooperative, international efforts to explore space |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Sweet |
Q&A With Sir Martin Sweeting Surrey Satellite's CEO talks about the future of space exploration |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Stone |
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Steven M. Cherry |
Space Is Big Business Of the $257 billion spent on space last year, two-thirds came from the private sector |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
His Space At just under 7 feet, James Oberg was too tall to be an astronaut, so he became an aerospace engineer and then a space reporter instead. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2009 |
Landing on the Moon: Apollo 11, The Untold Story The ascent and descent team from Apollo 10 share their story as the Eagle prepares to undock from the moon. |
Popular Mechanics
May 26, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Is America's Space Administration Over-the-Hill? Next-Gen NASA Forty years ago most of NASA's employees were fresh out of college. Today, less than 20 percent are under the age of 40. As the baby boomers retire, who will get astronauts back to the lunar surface? |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Sarah Douglas |
NASA's Icy-Hot Rocket Engine Rocket engines don't get much cooler than this. |
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