Evaluating NASA's Futuristic EM Drive
April 29, 2015
A group at NASA's Johnson Space Center has successfully tested an electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive in a vacuum.
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Mars colonization news
Coalition for Space Exploration Statement on the NASA Authorization Bill
April 29, 2015
Using exceptional and unparalleled exploration systems, NASA will soon return American astronauts to cis-lunar space for the first time in more than 40 years and, eventually, take us to Mars.
10 things humans are doing right now to reach Mars
April 29, 2015
There are ten projects that are currently underway which should help us move forward with missions to Mars.
New technology enables mining for fuel from asteroids during Mars flights
April 28, 2015
Electric solar wind sail could make continuous bi-directional manned Mars flights possible by utilising water mined from the asteroids, researchers claim.
Down to Earth but looking up to Mars
April 28, 2015
UC Berkeley alumna Yvonne Young is set to launch a new chapter millions of miles away from Earth. The 32-year-old is one of 100 finalists for a one-way trip to Mars, a controversial mission in which she's staked her faith, despite experts' questions of its legitimacy.
Humans to Mars: further delay undermines support
April 27, 2015
For the first time, there is a growing consensus within the space advocacy community that human missions to Mars should be the goal of the US space program.
The new space race - between internet billionaires: Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk face off to see who can conquer the stars first
April 27, 2015
An isolated edge of vast West Texas is home to a highly secretive part of the 21st-century space race, one of two being directed in the Lone Star State by Internet billionaires whose personalities and corporate strategies seem worlds apart.
ELON MUSK: I think we've got a decent shot of sending a person to Mars in 11 or 12 years
April 24, 2015
Elon Musk has his heart set on Mars. The billionaire entrepreneur seems to have his hands in every cutting edge tech field, and some of that tech is going to help land a human on Mars.
Modular furniture is conceived for the moon, Mars and other destinations
April 24, 2015
A team of Rice University students has designed furniture intended for use on the moon, Mars and whatever other far-flung destinations humanity may consider in the future.
Buzz Aldrin impressed by Purdue's plan for Mars
April 23, 2015
A human colony on Mars could be just 25 years and several steps away.
Humans to Mars: Time to get on with it!
April 22, 2015
The United States has been contemplating human missions to Mars for more than fifty years, and, as incredible as it now seems, they hoped to accomplish that feat in the 1980s. So why are we, now in the second decade of a new century, still at least a decade and a half from the earliest likely human mission?
