23 Feb 2011, 09:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / BrainDriver, they call it, even if it's not a driver, but a car. A very special one, packed with enough gadgetry to make the NASA labs look like antiques. All right, so that's a bit of an ...
22 Feb 2011, 10:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Still waiting, ready and eager, to launch into space and join the crew of the International Space Station (ISS), Robonaut 2 decided to do something useful with its time. So, instead of surfing the c...
10 Feb 2011, 06:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Something went terribly wrong last year, when Toyota was forced to conduct the biggest recall the world has ever seen, but that something was not (we say again, was not) the electronic throttle cont...
3 Feb 2011, 06:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having missed out on the opportunity to be the first humanoid robot to go into space in 2010 (and now waiting to become the first humanoid robot to go into space in 2011, NASA-willing), Robonaut 2 h...
19 Jan 2011, 19:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It comes a time in everybody's life when they just want to quit. Give it all up, all the excitement of past days, the endless, at first glance, energy that powers them, all the glory of doing s...
19 Jan 2011, 10:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the past year or so, conspiracy theoreticians have joined hands and, building on the at times poorly timed and organized NASA press conferences, have decided that all the info about black holes,...
17 Jan 2011, 18:08 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Late last year, NASA awarded three contacts to teams from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing, to study what future aircraft designs could look like in 2025. Now, NASA is giving us a previe...
27 Dec 2010, 07:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two worlds have collided in 2010 perhaps more than they have ever collided before. Maybe for the first time in history, a great level of collaboration between the automotive and space exploration in...
26 Dec 2010, 12:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Martians, beware! The new Mars Rover is coming, and this time it brings some Earth-made weapons with it.
Well, not quite, but at least Martian rocks will get their brains zapped when the next Ma...
21 Dec 2010, 06:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the past year or so, we have witnessed the growth of a brave new industry. Spearheaded by Virgin Galactic, one of the many companies owned by Sir Richard Branson, the race for the creation of a ...
12 Dec 2010, 12:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We've all seen, for decades now, on various TV shows and documentaries, how space shuttles are launched. Strapped to their towers on the launch pads, the space shuttles await for days at times ...
4 Dec 2010, 08:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's no going around the problems discovered by NASA in the space shuttle Discovery's: the last space flight of the current generation shuttle will not take place this year, shattering ...
19 Nov 2010, 08:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Another delay in the launch of the last mission of space shuttle Discovery is also postponing the moment when the first humanoid robot will reach space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administra...
15 Nov 2010, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2009, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), together with tire maker Goodyear, presented the Spring Tire, a very special piece of rubber meant for traveling on the moon ...
30 Oct 2010, 07:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Bad news for the crew of the space shuttle Discovery and their unlikely companion, the Robonaut 2: due to some helium and nitrogen leaks, the launch of the shuttle has been delayed. The new take off...
26 Oct 2010, 08:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Even if the glory of the early days of space exploration is pretty much gone (mostly because of the lack of any notable results in the field since landing on the Moon), there are still some people o...
26 Oct 2010, 05:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The moment American manufacturer GM and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have been preparing for is approaching: next week, space shuttle Discovery will leave the planet, car...
13 Jul 2010, 16:00 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The Boeing Company recently took the wraps off its hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned aircraft, a demonstrator that will fly at an altitude of 65,000 feet for up to four days. The plane was devel...
7 Jul 2010, 19:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As announced this April, the robot built by American manufacturer GM together with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will take to space this fall, in what some might consider ...
26 May 2010, 10:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / “Hold on to your hats race fans, NASA is coming to NASCAR. From better brakes and safer tires to heat-resistant paint and cleaner emissions, NASA's contributions to the racing world will ...