“How do we use aerial mobility in the future on Mars, to help not just robotic exploration, but to help human exploration?”
Ellen Stofan
Smithsonian
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May 26, 2016
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May 25, 2016
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May 24, 2016
Technicians at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport erected an Antares first stage outfitted with two Russian RD-181 rocket engines.
May 20, 2016
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May 19, 2016
NASA is using data it has collected from orbit and the Martian surface to seek “exploration zones” that encompass all of the features that would make up a successful human mission—a safe landing zone near water supplies that could be mined for oxygen and rocket propellant.
May 18, 2016
When five highly regarded and diverse business visionaries all bet on a similar supply chain approach, it certainly merits our attention.
May 18, 2016
Remember the point Darth Vader made to Adm. Motti during the war council scene in “Star Wars IV?” Don’t choke.