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Jul 15, 2020

Elon Musk’s college pal: ‘When Elon gets into something, he develops just this different level of interest in it than other people’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

Elon is unique.


At age 17, Elon Musk left his home in South Africa and moved to Canada, where he enrolled at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. During his freshman-year in the fall of 1990, Musk befriended Navaid Farooq while living in the same dorm, according to the book “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future,” by Ashlee Vance.

Farooq, a Canadian who grew up in Geneva, bonded with Musk over their backgrounds abroad and their interest in strategy games, according to the book. Living in such close quarters, Farooq learned a lot about Musk, including what Farooq sees as his defining trait.

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Jul 14, 2020

Humanity on Mars? Technically possible, but no voyage on horizon

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

Robotic landers and rovers have been touching down on Mars since the 1970s, but when will humanity finally set foot on the Red Planet?

Experts believe the technical challenges are nearly resolved, but political considerations make the future of any crewed mission uncertain.

NASA’s human lunar exploration program, Artemis, envisions sending people back to the Moon by 2024 and using the experience gained there to prepare for Mars.

Jul 14, 2020

Podcast #48: Space Commerce with Tess Hatch

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

“I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.”–Elon Musk.

Jul 13, 2020

Elon Musk on How to Travel Faster than Light Speed “Space travels faster than the speed of light”

Posted by in categories: cosmology, Elon Musk, physics, space travel

“There is conceivably a way to do warp drive.” Elon Musk discusses warping space within the known laws of physics, the expansion of the universe being faster than the speed of light (which allow us to see back in time when looking into space) and dark matter.

Jul 13, 2020

A proposed new mission to Venus

Posted by in category: space travel

The proposed VERITAS mission to Venus is one of the finalists for NASA’s Discovery Program. If selected, it will revolutionize our knowledge about the planet’s geology and how this formerly habitable world became a fiery wasteland.

Jul 12, 2020

NASA wants a return to the moon in 2024. New human spaceflight chief makes no guarantees

Posted by in category: space travel

Kathy Lueders, the first woman to lead NASA’s human spaceflight program, will helm the agency’s return to the moon.

Jul 11, 2020

“Artemis 8” using Dragon

Posted by in category: space travel

Dragon to the Moon?


The following memo was sent by the author to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine and Scott Pace, executive secretary of the National Space Council, on June 30, 2020.

A mission equivalent to Apollo 8—call it “Artemis 8”—could be done, potentially as soon as this year, using Dragon, Falcon Heavy, and Falcon 9.

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Jul 11, 2020

Surviving Mars | Humanity’s First Mars Base

Posted by in categories: business, space travel

The coming two decades are scheduled to be very interesting decades for human space exploration and colonization. One of the things on America’s agenda for space exploration is creating humanity’s first Mars base, which will most likely happen in the 2030s and 2040s. If you are interested in what this Moon base will look like, please take a look at this video!

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Jul 10, 2020

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Attached to Atlas V Rocket

Posted by in category: space travel

“I have seen my fair share of spacecraft being lifted onto rockets,” said John McNamee, project manager for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “But this one is special because there are so many people who contributed to this moment. To each one of them I want to say, we got here together, and we’ll make it to Mars the same way.”

With the mating of spacecraft and booster complete, the final testing of the two (separately and as one unit) will be underway. Then two days before the July 30 launch, the Atlas V will leave the Vertical Integration Facility for good. Traveling by rail, it will cover the 1,800 feet (550 meters) to the launch pad in about 40 minutes. From there, Perseverance has about seven months and 290 million miles (467 million kilometers) to go before arriving at Mars.

Jul 10, 2020

SpaceX Crew Dragon: NASA images show biggest launch yet is almost here

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX and NASA have been working together to develop a means to transport humans to and from the International Space Station.