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• Got space?

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 137
  Via KurzweilAI.net — You’ll a propulsion system to get around those cosmic distances. Engage the x drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space New Scientist Space, Dec. 21, 2009 Ion thrusters, magnetoplasma rockets, and fusion rockets are among the proposed new technologies for instellar travel. Read Original ...
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• Joy to see the World: Christmas in Space

  
  Times LIVE Blogs - Posts — Authority: 153
  The astronauts of Apollo 8 may hold the record for celebrating the most remote Christmas ever as their capsule orbited the moon on December 24, 1968.Related posts: Chasing the rocket’s red glare A tough Christmas on the ice Christmas in Hell: Stalingrad, 1942 America hunts for water on the moon. Did they ...
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• The best barriers are planet sized ones

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 139
  According to recent simulations, the idea of making a life for yourself on a planet closer to the center of the galaxy has hit a natural barrier as well as a (lack-of-way-to-get-there-and-survive) technological one: Too many comets. Not enough ho’s! No! No! Sit down Ludacris. We’re not going into a song, okay? ...
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• Engage the x drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space [del.icio.us]

  
  Blah, Blah! Technology — Authority: 130
  So if we want to explore the depths of deep space and journey to Alpha Centauri and beyond, were going to need some new technologies. Here, we look at 10 of the most intriguing.
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• an unusual challenge for alien astronauts?

  
  weird things — Authority: 546
  Being a space faring species is hard work. Aside from battling budgetary problems and the difficulty of making reliable, resilient spacecraft that can escape the planet’s gravity, you have to deal with radiation, generating an immense amount of power to move your craft through the voids of deep space, and actually ...
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• ISS Expedition 22 Launch and Burnt Skepticism

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 123
  ISS Expedition 22 crew launched yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at around 5:15 p.m.: The Soyuz TMA-17 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 20, 2009 carrying Expedition 22 crewmembers Timothy J. Creamer of NASA, Oleg Kotov of Russia and Soichi Noguchi of Japan to the ...
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• Outback Laos

  
  Flemming Bo Jensen Photography blog — Authority: 116
  Quick, have a look at this image, do not look at my post title. Where would you guess this image was captured? Oh bugger, I put the country in the image title as well. But, would you ever guess this was Laos and not outback Australia or Namibia? Also reminds me of some images from Chile I have seen. Driving around ...
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• EcoMeme: The Future of Flight, Fuel Efficient?

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 522
  Some people think aviation and space exploration suck – fossil fuel that is. Not to mention clean air, and quiet habitat. Can these industries, so essential to global scientific and economic progress, go green? The race is definitely on. Offering hope, inspiring blog posts and tweets-a-plenty over the past two ...
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• Space Fashions Vol. 2: Sexy Space Suits?

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  Outside of sci-fi fanboy dreams, space suits are generally a rather unsexy affair. In this post, well slip into some of the more visual alluring (and revealing) numbers to come down the cosmic fashion runway.
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• 80s Pop Stars to Perform in Space

  
  Signature9 — Authority: 436
  You may like your 80s Pop Stars in neon colored leggings, sporting unruly manes, and saying things that are, like, totally awesome – but we here at Signature9 like our retro rockers intergalactic. Yup, as in, like, totally, in  space . Virgin Galactic CEO, Richard Branson, holding a spacecraft model. From the ...
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• Have You Seen Planet 51?

  
  DJ's World - sharing the fun and educational world of DJ - a 5 year old computer wiz — Authority: 109
  Have You Seen Planet 51? We are very proud that you have chosen to subscribe to this feed. We hope that you and your family will visit DJs World on a regular basis. We pledge that we will always keep DJs World a safe place for children of all ages to visit. Please enjoy the following posting(s): I have always like ...
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• Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

  
  Auxiliary Memory — Authority: 416
  Orphans of the Sky is one of Robert Heinlein lesser known novels, even though it’s one of his best.  It’s hard to talk about the novel without giving away its big idea, but it’s not likely I’ll convince you to read it without telling.  This short novel is made up from two novelettes first published in ...
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• Past Regrets by Debra A. Soles

  
  Bitten by Books — Authority: 150
  “Ginger fumed all the way back to her office. No one had ever busted their butt harder for the Galactic Security Academy, yet she had to prove herself in order to get a promotion she had more than earned years ago. Then to be sent on some rescue mission to save some useless rich punk was a complete slap in the face! ...
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• The Vista Telescope’s First Crop of Deep-Space Images Will Waken Anyone’s Impractical Wanderlust

  
  Perceptive Travel Blog — Authority: 421
  A new UK deep-space telescope operating out of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile only just became operational, and is already feeding back incredible images of parts of space the human-technology-eye has never before penetrated. The Vista telescope is engaged, essentially, in ...
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• Boldly going where no one has developed a business before

  
  Front End of Innovation — Authority: 120
  "If the development of air travel was the responsibility of NASA, wed still be traveling from city to city staring at the [back] end of an oxen." This was a quote from Burt Rutan , whom I met at the Front End of Innovation Conference a couple of years ago. While its all too common to complain about the ...
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• Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo: the video unveiling

  
  Engadget — Authority: 835
  Youve already engrossed yourself in the media reports stemming from Mojave Spaceport, but if youve been hunting high and low for a few good frames of the SpaceShipTwo unveiling , look no further. Our homeslices over at Gadling were on hand for the event, and they did the honors of filming the introduction as well ...
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• Nanotech in space

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 137
  Well, theoretically in space in the form of improving ion-propulsion systems . In reality if interstellar, or even travel within the solar system beyond Mars, has any hope feasibility, it’s going to require a major breakthrough in getting from point A (ostensibly Earth) and point B. It’ll be interesting to see ...
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• Video: SpaceShipTwo Unveiling

  
  Autopia — Authority: 707
  We’ve got video of last night’s unveiling of VSS Enterprise , the vessel Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic will use the carry well-heeled folks to the edge of space. Sir Richard and the guys at Scaled Composites rolled Enterprise out of her hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port, where it was christened by ...
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• Space: Richard Branson Unveils Sexiest Spaceship Ever

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  Commercial space travel just made a giant leap with the unveiling of SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactics newest vessel and the worlds first commercial spacecraft. Sir Richard Branson talks to Discovery News Irene Klotz about his latest innovation.
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• behold the shape of things to come. hopefully…

  
  weird things — Authority: 546
  After years of secrecy and bold talk from Richard Branson, the first commercial spacecraft for sub-orbital flight and its carrier craft have been unveiled to the public. SpaceShipTwo is the size of a large cabin private jet and will accelerate to 2,600 mph with its hybrid rocket motor, reaching a maximum altitude of ...
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