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Private Citizens: Expedition To Mars By 2014
"Despite the fact that the best estimates put Mars at least 25 years away, a pair of adventurers is seeking to visit the red planet around 2014." I'd love to see it happen. But seriously?NASA's future inflatable lunar base
"These 12-foot (3.65 meter) diameter inflatable units could be used as building blocks for a future lunar base. Right now, a prototype is tested at NASA's Langley Research Center." Er, asterDeep Space Propulsion via Magnetic Fields
"What the researcher is proposing is that a spacecraft can be made to accelerate in a direction perpendicular to a magnetic field." Near-future sf writers, take notes.A Jovian Outpost: The Fifty Year Plan
"Ad astra incrementis — you get to the stars one step at a time, and as you go up those steps, you realize that each one has taken you that much farther than the last."Second Life Sketches: Shipwrecked And Abandoned
"The simple truth is that, at any given moment, there’s the population of a small village, at best, wandering around a place the size of eight Manhattans." Warren Ellis on the loneliness ofMartian Explorers Should Be Looking for Fossils
"Instead of just looking for current life on Mars, Arizona State University professor Jack Farmer thinks that future missions should also be looking for ancient fossils on the Red Planet. In factSpace Travel: Not for A Billion Years
"Mind uploading will make space travel useless. If my mind is running at a million times human speed, then the Moon, Mars, and Proxima Centauri look far more distant than they were previously. ItIs The Moon A Beta Test For Mars?
"Before our race decides to muster the courage to populate our solar system, we need to figure out our current strengths and weaknesses, as well as threats to colonizing a world."On Trip to Mars, NASA Must Rethink Death
"When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endangering the rest of the crew? Should NASA employ DNA testing to weed out astronauts who mightSpace Historian Sees Cyborgs in Our Future
"...in some respects might this be an evolutionary road not unlike that taken by amphibian creatures that departed their water world to become land creatures."'Deflector' shields could protect future astronauts - space - 18 April 2007 - New Scientist Space
"Magnetic "deflector shields" could one day guard astronauts against dangerous space radiation, if experiments now underway pay off."Electric Sail Rides the Solar Wind
"The so-called ‘electric sail’ would use fifty to one hundred 20-kilometer long charged tethers, their voltage maintained by a solar-powered electron gun aboard the vehicle."ESA Working To Build BepiColombo
"BepiColombo, ESA's mission to explore planet Mercury, has been definitively 'adopted' [...] last Friday. The mission will now start its industrial implementation phase, to prepare for launch inMaking the Case for Space
"When you think about it, so much of science involves putting our instruments into the right place at the right time."
