US space agency shooting for out-of-this-world ideas
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ATLANTA - Nasa&#39;s Atlanta-based Institute for Advanced Concepts has a new field of futuristic dreams to nurture - from engineering organisms that could live on Mars to swarms of microscopic satellites to map the Earth.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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Scientists discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected proposals, including two from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for future lunar science activities. In addition, the agency has established two new programs that will enhance research made possible by the Vision for Space Exploration.
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The head of the US space agency, NASA, says private enterprise will play an important role in space in the future. While visiting California, NASA administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe watched the launch of the privately
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With budgets tightening and the obstacles to human space exploration looking more daunting, NASA is enlisting the expertise of outsiders.
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How NASA turned to Americaâs basement brainstormers, workbench concocters and garage tinkerers to revive the space program.
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The group that awarded US$10 million this week to the winner of an outer-space travel contest is gearing up to offer cash prizes for technology breakthroughs in medicine, computer science, transportation and a number of other arenas.
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LOS ANGELES -- Just a few years ago, the idea of bankrolling starry-eyed ventures to fly ordinary people into space was laughed off as science fiction.
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For those who want to explore Mars but cant wait for a spacecraft to take them there, NASA scientists have reformulated a website that lets the general public search data and images from previous missions.
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Flush with a newly approved $16.2 billion budget, NASA will be able to flesh out a way to save the Hubble Space Telescope, choose a new spacecraft and develop new ways to get back to the moon, Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe said Tuesday.
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The out-of-this world visuals in the new "Star Trek" movie will actually be based on science from our solar system. A NASA planetary scientist has joined the film's production team to ensure the scientific accuracy of the movie's astronomical scenes.
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Nippy yet economical astro-peepers wanted The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon death-boffin hothouse where ideas don't have to be mad to get funding but it doesn't hurt either, has issued a new request for proposals.â¦
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A space capsule set to plunge into Earth&#39;s atmosphere with a piece of the Sun this Wednesday has spawned additional projects ranging from spacecraft design to the detection of dangerous asteroids.
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We may be looking for life in space the wrong way, say scientists. Look for alien spaceprobes rather than radio beacons, they say.
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Trying to save the famed Hubble Space Telescope with a robot would cost &#36;2 billion with just a 50-50 chance of success, an aerospace research group is advising NASA in the coming days.
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SPACE.com / Top officials from NASA and China are meeting this week to gauge the prospects for potential partnerships in future space endeavors.