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Nov 26, 2018

What If Humanity Became an Interstellar Society?

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What would it take to become an interstellar civilization?

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Nov 26, 2018

NASA ScienceCasts: New InSight into the Red Planet

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We’ve always referred to Mars as the Red Planet because of its surface color. But what’s below that dusty crust? NASA InSight mission is currently cruising through space, set for our #MarsLanding and determined to find out.

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Nov 25, 2018

AI for interstellar travel Photo

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Stephen Baxter collaborates with i4is on AI for interstellar travel — Andreas Hein and Stephen Baxter explore the potential of artificial intelligence for interstellar exploration and colonization in a brand-new arXiv preprint (Image: Adrian Mann)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06526

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Nov 25, 2018

NASA’s Next Stop: ‘The Biggest Parking Lot On Mars’

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The InSight spacecraft is about to land.

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Nov 25, 2018

Elon Musk Denies That SpaceX’s Mars Colony Will Be a Ticket Out for the Rich

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As Mars colonization inches ever closer to becoming a reality, some have argued that the ability to afford a ticket to the Red Planet is a luxury afforded only to the wealthiest members of society. Billionaire Elon Musk has said it’ll run potential Mars inhabitants traveling with his company SpaceX hundreds of thousands of dollars to get there. But in a new interview, he rebuffed the assertion that a one-way ticket to Mars is an easy ticket out for the rich.

The comments were part of an interview with the SpaceX and Tesla CEO that will air Sunday evening in the final episode of Axios’ four-part limited documentary series on HBO. In a clip from the interview, Elon Musk hinted that advancements by his company for Mars colonization have been notable and said there’s a “70 percent” chance that he heads to the Red Planet himself.

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Nov 24, 2018

Russia’s top space official says their mission to the moon will help verify conspiracy theory

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One Russian poll found that 28% of respondents doubted the moon landing.


The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has said that a proposed Russian mission to the moon will be tasked with verifying that the American moon landings were real.

“We have set this objective to fly and verify whether they’ve been there or not,” said Dmitry Rogozin in a video posted Saturday on Twitter.

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Nov 23, 2018

NASA teases trips to Mars, the Moon in new video

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Nov 21, 2018

Next year, our NASA Commercial Crew Program returns human spaceflight to American soil

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Our partners The Boeing Company and SpaceX are scheduled to launch two uncrewed and two crewed demo flights, beginning with the SpaceX Crew Dragon liftoff on Jan. 7, 2019. The latest: https://go.nasa.gov/2FBi6GI

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Nov 20, 2018

On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars

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This is amazing.


This is a comic about NASA’s Insight mission to Mars.

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Nov 19, 2018

Our NASA InSight lander just needs some… — NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Our NASA InSight lander just needs some peace and quiet to get its work done. After next week’s #MarsLanding, the spacecraft will study the entire Red Planet by… staying put. Learn how: https://go.nasa.gov/2FwIth3

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