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Beam me to the stars: Scientists propose wild new interstellar travel tech
"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...
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Why NASA’s Interstellar Mission Almost Didn’t Happen
currently reporting on the surprisingly complex plasma bubble that surrounds the sun and marks the designated boundary between the solar system and interstellar space, are expected to fall silent ...
Forbes1y
NASA’s Aging Voyager 1 Experiences Glitch In Interstellar Space
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Ones and zeros. That’s the love language of computers. It’s how NASA’s ...
USA Today29d
'A community of galactic civilizations': Jimmy Carter's decades-old message for aliens
"The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar ... helped rescue NASA's space shuttle program by funding its ...
Yahoo25d
A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?
Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...
Space.com1mon
Former US President Jimmy Carter dies at 100, but his voice continues 'into the cosmos'
“We are saddened by the passing of President Jimmy Carter, who contributed to the Voyager Golden Record currently traveling through interstellar ... of the space shuttle. Without the additional ...