British idea for a suborbital flight might have started a space program in 1951
Tuesday, the BBC reported on a hitherto little-known proposal in the early 1950s to use a modified V2 rocket to put a Briton into...
Company aims to launch spacecraft on beams of microwaves
The quest for cheap access to space, to make space travel as inexpensive as air travel, has eluded engineers, government policy makers, and business...
Company building ‘SpiderFab’ for NASA that spins space structures like a spider
Space.com reported Monday about a NASA funded concept, called SpiderFab, that promises to combine 3D printing techniques and the way spiders spin a web...
DARPA issues contracts to build hypersonic space plane XS-1
The problem of achieving cheap and reliable access to space has vexed engineers since the dawn of the space age. The recent run of...
Danish astronaut controls a robot on Earth from the International Space Station
The European Space Agency made a breakthrough in teleoperation, AFP reported on Monday. Andreas Mogensen, Denmark’s first astronaut, remotely guided a robot on Earth...
China mulling space-based solar power stations for clean, limitless energy
A Monday story in Xinhau reports that Chinese scientists are expressing interest in building a solar power station in space to capture energy from...
Alliance for Space Development to push reusable spacecraft and space settlements
The Alliance for Space Development, consisting of a number of space advocacy groups such as the National Space Society, the Space Frontier Foundation, and...
Recent study suggests lack of support of space exploration by evangelicals
According to a Wednesday story by the Catholic News Service, a recent study on religion and attitudes toward space exploration suggested that Jews, followers...
Science historian slams commercial space as ‘ego-driven’
Slate published a polemic against commercial space on Tuesday that has the Internet buzzing, mainly with outrage. The premise of the article is that...
Branched-chain carbon molecules found in space for the first time
Isopropyl cyanide has been discovered in the giant gas cloud called Sagittarius B2. Arnaud Belloche from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
