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Sally Ride Science Launches at UC San Diego
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
Blasting aboard space shuttle Challenger in 1983 to become the first American woman-and at age 32, the youngest American in space-the late Sally Ride captured t...
Charles Elachi to retire as JPL Director
Oct 30, 2015 (JPL)
Charles Elachi, the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 2001, has announced that he is retiring at the end of June 2016. He will become professor em...
Study solves mysteries of Voyager 1's journey into interstellar space
Oct 29, 2015 (SPX)
In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues answer the question of why NASA's Voya...
From science fiction to reality - sonic tractor beam invented
Oct 29, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics have built the world's first sonic tractor beam that can li...
Faster optimization
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Optimization problems are everywhere in engineering: Balancing design tradeoffs is an optimization problem, as are scheduling and logistical planning. The theor...
NASA Marks Completion of Test Version of Key SLS Propulsion System
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
A structural test article of the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for NASA's new deep-space exploration rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), has been...
Lockheed begins full-scale assembly and test of Orion
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin and NASA have completed the majority of Orion's Critical Design Review (CDR) which means the spacecraft's design is mature enough to move into f...
Reentry data will help improve prediction models
Oct 26, 2015 (ESA)
A rare reentry of a suspected rocket body from a very high orbit next month offers an excellent opportunity to gather data to improve our knowledge of how objec...
The Study of Science through Popular Movies
Oct 23, 2015 (SPX)
Who says class has to be all about lectures and labs? Andres Aragoneses, a quantum optics researcher at Duke, has created a class called "Science and Science Fi...
Hold on to your hoverboard: 'Back to the Future' is now
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
Welcome to the future. October 21, 2015 is the date "Back to the Future" professor Doc Brown and Marty McFly journey to in their time-traveling DeLorean in the ...
Journaling: Astronauts chronicle missions
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
Remember those old math questions you had in Algebra class? Where water is entering a container at a certain rate and leaving at a different rate and you need t...
Brands eye big bucks with 'Back to the Future' nostalgia
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
The dog-walking drones and flying cars of Marty McFly's fictional 21st century are still the stuff of sci-fi in real-life 2015 -- but savvy brands from Pepsi to...
NASA Appoints Mark Kirasich To Serve As Orion Program Manager
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
NASA has appointed Mark Kirasich to be manager of the agency's Orion Program. The Orion spacecraft is being developed to send astronauts to deep space destinati...
Russian Cosmonauts Taste 160 Meals Ahead of Space Station Expedition
Oct 15, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russian cosmonauts have tasted 160 meals for a space menu ahead of a March 2016 expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), the press service of the Ga...
Back to the Future: Truth is stranger than sci-fi
Oct 14, 2015 (AFP)
When Marty McFly and "Doc" Brown burst into 2015 in a time machine, straight from the year 1985, they encounter a brave new world of garbage-fuelled flying cars...
Magnetic sail tech alternative to rocket-based space travel
Oct 14, 2015 (SPX)
What if it were possible to travel to Mars without using traditional rockets? That is the question being explored by local start-up Dark Sea Industries, an aero...
NASA, Israel ink space cooperation agreement
Oct 13, 2015 (AFP)
NASA and the Israel Space Agency signed an agreement Tuesday to expand cooperation in civil space activities, the Israeli government said. The deal was signed b...
Dog smartphone and dancing humanoids on show at HK Fair
Oct 13, 2015 (AFP)
From a camera-enabled collar dubbed the "smartphone" for dogs to a calorie-counting "smart cup", health and lifestyle technology is at the forefront of what's o...
UTMB developing guidelines for commercial space travel
Oct 12, 2015 (SPX)
People have dreamed of traveling to space and gazing back at earth since the dawn of time, but until recently space travel has been something reserved for a sel...
Aerojet completes major review of Orion subsystems
Oct 12, 2015 (SPX)
Aerojet Rocketdyne (AJRD) announces the critical design review (CDR) completion for the jettison motor and the crew module reaction control system (RCS) on the ...
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