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Nov 20, 2017
Fifty years since the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (1968 — 2018): UNISPACE+50 — United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, environmental, governance, government, law, policy, science, space, space travel, treaties
“UNISPACE+50 will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. It will also be an opportunity for the international community to gather and consider the future course of global space cooperation for the benefit of humankind.
From 20 to 21 June 2018 the international community will gather in Vienna for UNISPACE+50, a special segment of the 61 st session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).”
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Nov 19, 2017
The Moon Express MX-1E Lander Is Heading for the Moon or Bust
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Take a close look at the R2-D2-shaped lander that startup Moon Express wants to land on the moon.
Nov 15, 2017
NASA ‘nuclear engines’ could provide power to the first humans on Mars
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: nuclear energy, space, transportation
NASA is set to begin testing a radical ‘nuclear engine’ that could provide power for astronauts on the Martian surface.
Dubbed the ‘Kilopower’ it would use a uranium rector the size of a toilet roll to create heat.
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Nov 15, 2017
Astronomers Complete First International Asteroid Tracking Exercise
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: health, space
Nov 14, 2017
Jupiter’s lights are acting very STRANGE – and NO ONE knows why
Posted by John Gallagher in category: space
THE dazzling lights on Jupiter have been behaving rather peculiar – and even scientists have no idea why.
Nov 14, 2017
Making a Moon Base With ‘Artemis’ Author Andy Weir
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
Nov 14, 2017
Moon vs. Mars and asteroids: Watch space advocates debate where we should go
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: Elon Musk, space
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has famously said he’d like to die on Mars — “just not on impact.” But where will humans live in space? That was the focus of a good-natured debate that took place at this week’s “New Space Age” conference at Seattle’s Museum of Flight.
Chris Lewicki, president and CEO of Redmond, Wash.-based Planetary Resources, took up the case for going to asteroids and Mars. Seattle-area entrepreneur Naveen Jain, co-founder and chairman of Florida-based Moon Express, spoke for the moon.
Nov 13, 2017
Soviet children in 1967 dreamt of space travel, free ice-cream & robots doing homework in 2017 World News
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: food, robotics/AI, space
Letters from a time capsule opened in the Russian city of Novorossiysk have revealed that Soviet students in 1967 believed their peers in 50 years time would be living on other planets and eating ice cream for free, while their homework will be done by machines.
Hundreds of time capsules were laid across the USSR in 1967 as the country celebrated half a century since the Russian Revolution, which eventually led to the creation of the Soviet state. Those messages, containing the accounts of Soviet people’s lives and their messages to descendants, are being opened in Russia this year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the events of 1917.
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