Lifeboat Foundation

The animation describes the concept of launching a nuclear fusion reactor into orbit in sections for final assembly in space. The concept uses live footage of Pulsar’s existing hall effect plasma thrusters (HET) and hybrid rocket engines tested at RAF Westcott in March 2022. Pulsar is also developing LOX / Methane rocket motors to support this concept.

The ambitious proposal could help realize Elon Musk’s vision of SpaceX’s Starship as a “futuristic Noah’s Ark”.

A botanist and ecologist has crafted a detailed proposal for a flourishing green space on the barren, desolate surface of Mars, a report from CNET

Dreaming of an Earth-like environment on Mars.

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Humans will launch aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis II, which is currently slated for a 2024 launch.

Incredible new footage from NASA’s moon mission Artemis I looks straight out of a Christopher Nolan sci-fi epic.

Lockheed Martin, the company that built the Orion spacecraft, shared the launch footage on its Twitter page, allowing viewers to imagine what it will be like for astronauts aboard NASA’s crewed Artemis II mission.

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Beijing, China — Dec 4, 2022 (CCTV — No access Chinese mainland) 1. Various of ground control team working 2. Screen showing Shenzhou-14 separating from space station combination.

In Space — Dec 4, 2022 (China Manned Space Agency — No access Chinese mainland) 3. Shenzhou-14 spacecraft.

Beijing, China — Dec 4, 2022 (CCTV — No access Chinese mainland) 4. Various of screen showing Shenzhou-14 separating from space station combination 5. Various of screen showing space station combination 6. Screen showing Shenzhou-14 separating from space station combination.

Year 2008 o.o!

That is so fantastically ridiculous and dangerous… not that the laser is terribly dangerous; more for the incredibly fast print head. the video reminds me of “Starship Troopers”, i love it. it’s probably not deep, i wonder if they heal up after a few months.

Make a small one, get it FDA approved! it’s the wave of the future!

Time travel makes great science fiction, but can it really be done? Travel into the future is already a reality, but visiting the past is a much tougher proposition, and may require fantastic resources such as a wormhole in space. Nevertheless, if going back in time is allowed, even in principle, then what about all those paradoxes that make time travel stories so intriguing?

Paul Davies is a physicist, cosmologist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where he is Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is the author of many books, including “How to Build a Time Machine” and, most recently, “The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?”

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Find out how traveling faster than light and traveling back in time are the same thing. And be sure to tell PBS what types of shows you want to see at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017 25 random participants in the survey will receive PBS t-shirts.

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How China plans to catch and reuse its next-generation rockets. Seems like a unique approach compared to SpaceX’s plan to catch a booster with the launch tower.

An overview of China’s “other” Lunar super-rocket.

The space firm has already built the most powerful electric propulsion engine in Europe.

Nuclear fusion-powered rockets might be nearer than you think. UK rocket company Pulsar Fusion has been awarded funding from the UK Space Agency to help it develop “integrated nuclear fission-based power systems for electric propulsion”, a press statement shared with IE via email reveals.

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