1.1 SpaceX fails to land
1.2 Huge asteroid hurtling past Earth has its own moon
2.1 Inflatable space habitat
2.2 'Mars One' selects 100 candidates to compete for one-way trip on reality TV
2.3 Black hole 12 billion times bigger than the sun
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1.1 Space X fails to land (12/1/2015)
Musk has said and wrote repeatedly making rockets fully reusable will reduce the cost of getting to orbit to 1 percent of what it is today. Finally facilitating Musk’s dream of landing humans on Mars to eventually create flourishing colonies on the Martian planet, making humanity a “multi-planet species.”
http://www.sciencerecorder.
1.2 Huge asteroid hurtling past Earth has its own moon (27/1/2012)
Should we not be doing something with these asteroids? Perhaps attach tracking devices on them, or video cameras? Find out its composition? Perhaps attach an efficient mass ejector to it (or solar sails), which will perhaps in a hundred year's time put this asteroid in orbit around the Moon?
http://www.csmonitor.com/
2. 1 Inflatable space habitat (9/2/20115)
Bigelow Aerospace (BA), founded by space baron Robert Bigelow in 1999, will get $17.8m to put together the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module - a blowup space habitat.
The prototype bubble home will be the company's third orbiting craft, but the first to be used with a crewed spacecraft. If the trial goes well, NASA may use the technology for deep-space missions in the future, such as a launch to Mars.
"This partnership agreement for the use of expandable habitats represents a step forward in cutting-edge technology that can allow humans to thrive in space safely and affordably, and heralds important progress in US commercial space innovation," NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver said in a canned statement.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
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In early 2011, NASA put forward a conceptual proposal for a long-duration crewed space transport vehicle which includes an artificial gravity space habitat intended to promote crew-health for a crew of up to six persons on missions of up to two years duration. Called the Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle (MMSEV), the partial-g torus-ring centrifuge would utilize both standard metal-frame and inflatable spacecraft structures and would provide 0.11 to 0.69g.[6][12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Bigelow began to publicly refer to the initial configuration—two Sundancer modules and one BA-330 module— of the first Bigelow station as "Space Complex Alpha" in October 2010.[4] If the entire station is leased out, it could mean up to 25 launches per year for crew and cargo.[18] In early 2013, Bigelow Aerospace started referring to Alpha as consisting of two BA-330 modules instead of two Sundancer and one BA-330.[6]
In October 2010, Bigelow announced that it has agreements with six sovereign nations to utilize the on-orbit facilities of the commercial space station: United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Sweden.[19] A seventh country signed on in February 2011: the United Arab Emirate of Dubai.[20]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
2. 2 'Mars One' selects 100 candidates to compete fro one-way trip on reality TV (17/2/2015)
Mars One, an ambitious mission to send colonists to the red planet by 2025, has narrowed down its list of contenders to just 100 applicants.
That's down from an original pool of more than 200,000, according to CNN. When the Dutch-based venture opened its doors to applicants in 2013, eager would-be astronauts from around the world flooded organizers with tens of thousands of video applications.
Now, after several rounds of elimination, that pool has been whittled down to just 50 men and 50 women who will compete in a reality TV series for the chance to take a one-way trip to Mars, NBC News reported. The winners will be tasked with setting up a permanent colony on the red planet.
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My interest will be in following not how they fare on the red planet, rather how they prepare for the adventure on our own. This will have huge scientific merit ... not the fancy rocketry and transport to Mars part .... the day to day survival part.
Regards,
Selvaraj
2. 3 Black hole 12 billion times bigger than the sun (26/2/2015)
A black hole is a dense region of space that has collapsed in on itself in a way that means nothing can escape it, not even light.
.... Writing in "Nature," astronomer Bram Venemans explains: "Theoretically, it is not implausible to find a black hole of more than 10 billion solar masses within 1 billion years after the Big Bang. But it is still surprising to uncover such a massive black hole in the early Universe."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/
3. 1 The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (1/3/2015)
1.2 Huge asteroid hurtling past Earth has its own moon
2.1 Inflatable space habitat
2.2 'Mars One' selects 100 candidates to compete for one-way trip on reality TV
2.3 Black hole 12 billion times bigger than the sun
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1.1 Space X fails to land (12/1/2015)
Musk has said and wrote repeatedly making rockets fully reusable will reduce the cost of getting to orbit to 1 percent of what it is today. Finally facilitating Musk’s dream of landing humans on Mars to eventually create flourishing colonies on the Martian planet, making humanity a “multi-planet species.”
http://www.sciencerecorder.
1.2 Huge asteroid hurtling past Earth has its own moon (27/1/2012)
Should we not be doing something with these asteroids? Perhaps attach tracking devices on them, or video cameras? Find out its composition? Perhaps attach an efficient mass ejector to it (or solar sails), which will perhaps in a hundred year's time put this asteroid in orbit around the Moon?
http://www.csmonitor.com/
2. 1 Inflatable space habitat (9/2/20115)
Bigelow Aerospace (BA), founded by space baron Robert Bigelow in 1999, will get $17.8m to put together the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module - a blowup space habitat.
The prototype bubble home will be the company's third orbiting craft, but the first to be used with a crewed spacecraft. If the trial goes well, NASA may use the technology for deep-space missions in the future, such as a launch to Mars.
"This partnership agreement for the use of expandable habitats represents a step forward in cutting-edge technology that can allow humans to thrive in space safely and affordably, and heralds important progress in US commercial space innovation," NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver said in a canned statement.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
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In early 2011, NASA put forward a conceptual proposal for a long-duration crewed space transport vehicle which includes an artificial gravity space habitat intended to promote crew-health for a crew of up to six persons on missions of up to two years duration. Called the Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle (MMSEV), the partial-g torus-ring centrifuge would utilize both standard metal-frame and inflatable spacecraft structures and would provide 0.11 to 0.69g.[6][12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Bigelow began to publicly refer to the initial configuration—two Sundancer modules and one BA-330 module— of the first Bigelow station as "Space Complex Alpha" in October 2010.[4] If the entire station is leased out, it could mean up to 25 launches per year for crew and cargo.[18] In early 2013, Bigelow Aerospace started referring to Alpha as consisting of two BA-330 modules instead of two Sundancer and one BA-330.[6]
In October 2010, Bigelow announced that it has agreements with six sovereign nations to utilize the on-orbit facilities of the commercial space station: United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Sweden.[19] A seventh country signed on in February 2011: the United Arab Emirate of Dubai.[20]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
2. 2 'Mars One' selects 100 candidates to compete fro one-way trip on reality TV (17/2/2015)
Mars One, an ambitious mission to send colonists to the red planet by 2025, has narrowed down its list of contenders to just 100 applicants.
That's down from an original pool of more than 200,000, according to CNN. When the Dutch-based venture opened its doors to applicants in 2013, eager would-be astronauts from around the world flooded organizers with tens of thousands of video applications.
Now, after several rounds of elimination, that pool has been whittled down to just 50 men and 50 women who will compete in a reality TV series for the chance to take a one-way trip to Mars, NBC News reported. The winners will be tasked with setting up a permanent colony on the red planet.
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My interest will be in following not how they fare on the red planet, rather how they prepare for the adventure on our own. This will have huge scientific merit ... not the fancy rocketry and transport to Mars part .... the day to day survival part.
Regards,
Selvaraj
2. 3 Black hole 12 billion times bigger than the sun (26/2/2015)
(CNN)Researchers
in China have spotted a supermassive black hole, 12 billion times the
size of the sun and around 900 million years old.
The black hole is larger than any of its age previously seen, the journal "Nature" reports.A black hole is a dense region of space that has collapsed in on itself in a way that means nothing can escape it, not even light.
.... Writing in "Nature," astronomer Bram Venemans explains: "Theoretically, it is not implausible to find a black hole of more than 10 billion solar masses within 1 billion years after the Big Bang. But it is still surprising to uncover such a massive black hole in the early Universe."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/
3. 1 The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (1/3/2015)
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