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First View of NASA’s Opportunity Marathon on Mars Is an Outer Space Roadtrip
First View of NASA’s Opportunity Marathon on Mars Is an Outer Space Roadtrip

7 Jul 2015, 14:54 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / NASA's Opportunity rover was initially intended as a lot shorter mission than it eventually ended to be. In fact, that mission is surprisingly stil ongoing

 
Elon Musk's SpaceX Rocket Explodes on Mission to Resupply the Space Station
Elon Musk's SpaceX Rocket Explodes on Mission to Resupply the Space Station

30 Jun 2015, 14:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The next Falcon 9 rocket launch on SpaceX's schedule has been postponed. The launch was supposed to deliver NOAA's Jason-3 Earth observation satellite

 
Humanoid Robot Becomes NASA Government’s Invention of the Year
Humanoid Robot Becomes NASA Government’s Invention of the Year

21 Jun 2015, 09:33 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / OK, George Lucas was right about a lot of things, but seeing there's an actual R2 (without the D2) out there learning how to conduct surgeries is crazy

 
NASA Shares an Unprecedented Look of the Planet Filmed in 4K Resolution
NASA Shares an Unprecedented Look of the Planet Filmed in 4K Resolution

16 Jun 2015, 11:42 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Space truly is the limit, but before we get to that on a high scale, we should probably learn more about our planet first. It truly is amazing!

 
NASA's Latest Electric Rover Is Drifting-Approved
NASA's Latest Electric Rover Is Drifting-Approved

15 Apr 2015, 10:42 UTC · By: Tudor Rus / Once in a while, even scientists have to let their hair down a bit and have fun, right? NASA thought the same when they created the drifting MRV

 
Hyundai (Sort Of) Sent a Message Into Space, Breaks World Record
Hyundai (Sort Of) Sent a Message Into Space, Breaks World Record

10 Apr 2015, 12:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / What can you do with 11 examples of the 2015 Hyundai Genesis luxury sedan? Well, you can break the world record for the largest tire track image ever made

 
NASA Just Patented a Metal that Turns Heat into Electricity, Will Change the Auto Industry
NASA Just Patented a Metal that Turns Heat into Electricity, Will Change the Auto Industry

9 Apr 2015, 14:25 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Imagine you're driving a hybrid that is able to use the waste heat from your engine in order to create electricity which it sends back into the car

 
NASA Is Working on Bug Repellents and Jet Actuators to Improve Airliner Fuel Efficiency
NASA Is Working on Bug Repellents and Jet Actuators to Improve Airliner Fuel Efficiency

7 Apr 2015, 12:37 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The goal of the project is to develop aircraft concepts and technologies to reduce the impact of aviation on the environment over the next 30 years

 
Omega’s 45th Anniversary Timepiece Celebrates the Apollo 11 Mission
Omega’s 45th Anniversary Timepiece Celebrates the Apollo 11 Mission

26 Mar 2015, 14:31 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Buzz Aldrin had an Omega Speedmaster Professional chronograph strapped during the famous 1969 mission when human beings set foot on the surface of the Moon

 
NASA’s Plans for a Cleaner Future Involves an Experimental Wing Running on Electricity
NASA’s Plans for a Cleaner Future Involves an Experimental Wing Running on Electricity

17 Mar 2015, 14:37 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The Space Administration is currently testing an experimental 18-engine electric concept wing that, if proven successful, will be mounted on future airplanes

 
First Ever Space Selfie Sells at Auction, It Was Made More Than 50 Years Ago
First Ever Space Selfie Sells at Auction, It Was Made More Than 50 Years Ago

13 Mar 2015, 14:56 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Probably the most impressive picture for a lot of the people today is the first space selfie taken by Buzz Aldrin. It was taken more than 50 years ago

 
NASA Designed a Submarine to Explore Saturn’s Moon Titan
NASA Designed a Submarine to Explore Saturn’s Moon Titan

10 Feb 2015, 11:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Out of all the natural satelites in our solar system, Saturn's Titan is probably the most interesting and it will be visited by NASA in 2040

 
Here’s How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Crash from Last Week Looked Like
Here’s How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Crash from Last Week Looked Like

16 Jan 2015, 10:18 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When SpaceX launched its fifth official mission to resupply the International Space Station, last Saturday, everybody watched closely to see if Elon Musk’s plans on reusing the Falcon 9 works....

 
Nissan Teams Up With NASA for Autonomous Car Development
Nissan Teams Up With NASA for Autonomous Car Development

13 Jan 2015, 14:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The future is all about boring autonomous vehicles and you can’t do anything to stop that. Even the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) believes in it and teamed up with Nissa...

 
NASA’s Horizons Spacecraft Waking Up To Meet Pluto and Make History
NASA’s Horizons Spacecraft Waking Up To Meet Pluto and Make History

19 Nov 2014, 16:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Eight years ago, the Atlas V rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the New Horizons spacecraft on top to launch it in a 9.5 year mission to reach Pluto, the smallest, furthest &ldqu...

 
NASA Testing High-Tech Shapeshifting Aircraft Wings
NASA Testing High-Tech Shapeshifting Aircraft Wings

11 Nov 2014, 10:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Down on the roads, we’re trying to make our cars as green as ever using hybrid or electric powertrains, sleek aerodynamics and ecological manufacturing processes. But let’s not forget ab...

 
Secret X-37B Unmanned Space Plane Lands After 673 Days on Orbit
Secret X-37B Unmanned Space Plane Lands After 673 Days on Orbit

22 Oct 2014, 14:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / What’s 9-meter long, looks like NASA’s space shuttle, has no man onboard and flies for almost two years? Yep, it’s the US X-37B space plane which just landed after completing a god...

 
NASA’s MAVEN Satellite Sends First Pictures form Mars
NASA’s MAVEN Satellite Sends First Pictures form Mars

26 Sep 2014, 12:50 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / After a 10 moth-travel in space, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) spacecraft arrived at the Red Planet Sunday night. Two days later, the Indian Mangalyaan probe also arrived. T...

 
Boeing and SpaceX Win the $6.8 Billion Race for NASA's Flights
Boeing and SpaceX Win the $6.8 Billion Race for NASA's Flights

17 Sep 2014, 14:23 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / After a pretty tight competition, NASA has decided that Boeing and Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be the companies to develop the agency’s future two-human spaceflight vehicles. Boeing has won ...

 
Astronaut Reid Wiseman Shows Amazing Footage of Earth’s Storms
Astronaut Reid Wiseman Shows Amazing Footage of Earth’s Storms

4 Jul 2014, 12:54 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Remember that NASA astronaut to broadcast the world’s first Twitter Vine with a 6-second never-setting sun time-lapse? Well, Ride Wiseman recently went into a social media spree posting severa...