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Mars colonization news
April 17, 2015
This week, in a U.S. House Committee hearing for NASA’s 2016 budget, NASA chief administrator Charles Bolden told the committee that no commercial company without the support of NASA and government is going to get to Mars.
April 17, 2015
The JPL team will be presenting their concept publicly at Explore Mars's 2015 Humans to Mars Summit on May 6th.
April 17, 2015
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that it is teaming up with Microsoft to bring virtual reality, high-tech holograms and Mars exploration together to simulate what it would be like to actually walk on the planet, perhaps our future home.
April 16, 2015
Why is Elon Musk so hell-bent on going to Mars? There are two answers to this. One is the actual answer. The other isn't exactly wrong - it's technically correct - but it's incidental. And it turns out that's not even really the right question.
April 16, 2015
A NASA advisory panel's conclusion that the agency should scrap its controversial plan to corral part of an asteroid into orbit around the moon provided fresh ammunition Thursday to Republicans in Congress who have been saying the same thing.
April 16, 2015
NASA administrator Charles Bolden really wants to see people on Mars, and he wants America's space agency to get them there first.
April 16, 2015
Where will humans go after they get to Mars? What are the chances of finding life beyond our planet? They are all big questions NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has thought about.
April 15, 2015
If an astronaut is murdered in the International Space Station, where does the killer stand trial?
April 15, 2015
Five years ago today, on April 15, 2010, President Barack Obama ventured to the Kennedy Space Center and crippled NASA's space program for the rest of his presidency.
April 14, 2015
Paying taxes is an inescapable reality - even in space. Taxes are going to play a big role in a Mars mission, both in getting there and upon arrival.
April 14, 2015
The Rover Challenge requires students to design, construct, test and race human-powered rovers through an obstacle course simulating the terrain potentially found on distant planets, asteroids or moons.
