Trump repeatedly asks NASA administrator why we can’t go straight to Mars
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On Friday, President Trump commemorated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 with a photo opportunity
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All of the Apollo anniversary swag you can buy from dumb to fun
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission is upon us, and along with the history, remembrances, and tributes comes
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How to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing
Courtesy NASA July 20, 2019 at 4:17:40PM ET marks exactly fifty years from when the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle touched
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NASA’s daunting to-do list for sending people back to the Moon
The agency needs a finished rocket, a tiny space station, and a brand new lander Continue reading…
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High-speed lunar dust could cloud the future of human missions to the Moon
Apollo taught us that landing on the Moon is a dusty nightmare Continue reading…
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SpaceX’s test rocket catches fire after engine test
The second fireball | Image: LabPadre in cooperation with BocaChicaMaria1 A prototype version of SpaceX’s next-generation rocket caught fire last
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Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert them
Photo: Neuralink Elon Musk’s Neuralink, the secretive company developing brain-machine interfaces, showed off some of the technology it has been
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Apollo was NASA’s biggest win — but its legacy is holding the agency back
Why the space agency struggles to achieve its human spaceflight goals Continue reading…
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Facebook and CMU’s ‘superhuman’ poker AI beats human pros
AI has definitively beaten humans at another of our favorite games. A program, designed by researchers from Facebook’s AI lab
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Why fewer bug guts may be piling up on your car windshield
If you’ve ever taken a long road trip, you’ve likely experienced the rite of stopping at a gas station to
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