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  The last place you'd expect to find icicles is around the rim of a scalding hot and thundering rocke
Winter Wonder Rocket Movie
The last place you'd expect to find icicles is around the rim of a scalding hot and thundering rocket engine. Yet an engine being used by NASA to develop technologies for next-generation lunar landers has been caught producing icicles of unlikely beauty.
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  Have you ever stared up at the night sky, felt a gentle breeze, and wished you could set sail for th
A Brief History of Solar Sails
Have you ever stared up at the night sky, felt a gentle breeze, and wished you could set sail for the stars? Get in line. Many great thinkers from history have had the same idea. This long-held fancy could soon become reality with one solar sail mission on the drawing board and another already on the launching pad, slated to blast off this summer.
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  This summer, NASA engineers will try to realize a dream older than the Space Age itself: the deploym
NASA to Attempt Historic Solar Sail Deployment
This summer, NASA engineers will try to realize a dream older than the Space Age itself: the deployment of a working solar sail in Earth orbit. The name of the device is NanoSail-D and it is scheduled for launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket as early as July 29, 2008.
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  NASA scientists have developed a satellite named FASTSAT so fast and easy to build "even a caveman c
Bargain Basement Satellites
NASA scientists have developed a fast and easy-to-build satellite named FASTSAT that could accelerate the pace of space exploration.
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  Accelerating from 0 to 60, then slowing down for a stop light is no problem for an ordinary automobi
Throttling Back to the Moon
Accelerating from 0 to 60, then slowing down for a stop light is no problem for an ordinary automobile. But if you were piloting a rocketship, it wouldn't be so easy.
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  A Japanese tether of novel construction could unfold new opportunities in space.
Tether Origami
A Japanese tether of novel construction could unfold new opportunities in space.
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Engineers have found a way to boost the performance of liquid fueled rockets. The secret is in the plumbing.
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Forget antimatter and di-lithium crystals. The next hot rocket fuel is candle wax!
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Researchers discuss how to keep astronauts safe and healthy during long trips through the solar system.
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