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Space Invaders: the entrepreneurs taking humans into space
Economist
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NASA tested an impossible space engine and it somehow worked
The Verge
NASA has been testing new space travel technologies throughout its entire history, but the results of its latest experiment may be the most exciting yet — if they hold up. Earlier this week at a...
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Starshot project, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg launch most ambitious alien finding project ever
Independent
The backers hope that the project can send tiny rockets  25 trillion miles into space in just 20 years – and send back pictures, potentially showing worlds that could support life
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Through the wormhole. Spacecraft could survive black hole shortcut across the universe – study
RT
A spacecraft could survive a journey through a wormhole in the center of a black hole and pass into another universe despite its strong tidal forces, according to theoretical physicists.
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Tiny robots in space, Yuri Milner, investor | code conference 2016
Recode
Venture capitalist Yuri Milner projects what it will take for humans to expand their understanding of space. A tiny device called a StarChip, weighing less t...
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Interstellar space travel: 7 futuristic spacecraft to explore the cosmos
Live Science
Here are seven ways that robots, or even human explorers, could visit other cosmic neighborhoods.
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Elon musk to unveil interplanetary transport system for human mars mission
Observer
Elon Musk’s unveiling of the Interplanetary Transport System will occur in just seven days and will mark a new chapter for SpaceX.
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The myths and reality about interstellar travel
BBC
Is reaching alien planets outside our Solar System actually possible, and if so, how would it work? Bianca Nogrady explains.
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Biological teleporter could seed life through galaxy
MIT Technology Review
The first biological teleporter sits in a lab on the lower level of the San Diego building that houses Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), looking something like a super-sized equipment cart. The device is actually conglomeration of small machines and lab robots, linked to each other to form one big machine. But this one can do…
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This unbelievable research on human hibernation could get us to mars
Singularity Hub
To solve the many human-related limitations of space travel, SpaceWorks Enterprises is looking into selectively hibernating the crew during extended trips.
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This cosmic gps tech will help us explore the furthest reaches of space
Singularity Hub
NASA engineers recently showed off a proof-of-concept for a large-scale 'cosmic GPS.' In the same way GPS can triangulate the location of a mobile phone using satellites orbiting the earth, the tech could one day guide unmanned robotic spacecraft through space using pulsars.
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Nasa's got a plan for a galactic positioning system to save astronauts lost in space
Space
In the very near future, a galactic positioning system could put a probe in orbit around a far-distant moon, or save the lives of astronauts lost in space.
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Immortal interstellar probes
Centauri Dreams
Ronald Bracewell’s name doesn’t come up as often in these pages as I might like, but today James Jason Wentworth remedies the lack. Bracewell (1921-2007), active in radio astronomy, mathematics and physics for many years at Stanford University, developed the concept of autonomous interstellar probes. Such a craft would
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Generation ships
Isaac Arthur
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The plan to seed life on alien planets
Vice
The 50th anniversary of "Earthrise" is the perfect opportunity to think about sending Earth's life to the stars.
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Hitchhiking the galaxy
Isaac Arthur
Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur8The Galaxy is an enormous place, and moving from your planet to worlds in a ...
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Surviving in the expanse of space
Isaac Arthur
Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac to get a free copy of "Leviathan Wakes" Space is an incredibly harsh and immense environment absent of everything we...
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NASA aims to put first woman on the moon by 2024
News Week
The endeavor to put the first woman—and the next man— on the moon will likely cost between $20 and $30 billion over five years.
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NASA aims for Mars landing in 2035 while building support for lunar gateway
Space
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is looking to land humans on Mars in the 2030s as he recruits partners of the International Space Station to help the agency land humans on the moon by 2024, according to his remarks at the International Astronautical Congress.