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Falcon 9

Falcon 9 & Dragon to Return Astronauts to Space | Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. As the first rocket completely developed in the 21st century, Falcon 9 was designed from the ground up for maximum reliability... [SpaceX: http://futuristicnews.com/tag/spacex/ Rockets: http://futuristicnews.com/tag/rocket/]

Is this how man will land on Mars? SpaceX craft hovers

Is this how man will land on Mars? Watch SpaceX 'hover test' of Dragon capsule that will ferry astronauts to the space station - and could one day go to the red planet [The Future of Mars Exploration: http://futuristicnews.com/tag/mars/ SpaceX: http://futuristicnews.com/tag/spacex/]

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Spaceport Tucson: World View's New Home for Balloon Tourist Flights | World View Enterprises, which aims to loft paying customers to the stratosphere beneath a giant balloon, will do so from the newly approved Spaceport Tucson in southeastern Arizona, company representatives announced Tuesday. [Space Future: http://futuristicnews.com/category/future-space/]

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For more than 50 years, NASA's robotic deep space probes have carried nuclear batteries provided by the U.S. Department of Energy. Even the crewed Apollo moon landings carried nuclear powered equipment. [Space Future: http://futuristicnews.com/category/future-space/]

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How Do You Build A Mirror For One Of The World’s Biggest Telescopes?

How Do You Build A Mirror For One Of The World’s Biggest Telescopes? | When astronomers point their telescopes up at the sky to see distant supernovae or quasars, they’re collecting light that’s traveled millions or even billions of light-years through space. Even huge and powerful energy sources in the cosmos are unimaginably tiny and faint when we view them from such a distance. In order to learn about galaxies as... [Telescopes of the Future: http://futuristicnews.com/tag/telescope/]

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Lockheed Martin wants to reinvent the telescope

The telescope reinvented: Lockheed Martin reveals ‘spider eye’ system with hundreds of tiny lenses | The work is part of a Darpa-funded project dubbed 'Spider' | Replaces traditional design which hasn't changed much for 400 years [Telescopes of the Future: http://futuristicnews.com/tag/telescope/]

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Scientists Have Found a Gene That Could Be The Key to Growing Food in Space

Scientists have found a gene that could be the key to growing food in space | Australian scientists have found the gene that allows a native tobacco plant to grow and reproduce in an incredibly short amount of time, and in arid, desert conditions. | If applied to other plants, this gene could be the key to getting crops to survive and grow fast enough in the... [The Future of Mars Exploration: http://futuristicnews.com/tag/mars/ The Future of Food: http://futuristicnews.com/tag/future-food/]

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Design

Why Martian Concrete Might Be The Best Building Material In The Solar System | To colonize Mars, researchers are developing a new kind of concrete that doesn't require water and is more than twice as strong. | Concrete has been critical to the colonization of our own planet. The Romans and Egyptians built their empires upon it, and when their formula for concrete was lost, humanity invented it all over again in the... [The Future of Mars Exploration: http://futuristicnews.com/tag/mars/]

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NASA crowdsources design ideas for its new ISS-bound robot

NASA crowdsources design ideas for its new ISS-bound robot 1/18/16 Set to launch next year, Astrobee is a compact, cubed robot measuring one foot (30.5 cm) along each edge

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NASA's risk-taking may be getting scary again

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Astronauts grow their first flower in space

Astronauts grow their first flower in space 1/17/16 They're raising zinnias aboard the ISS to know more about growing food on Mars.

Is another Blue Origin test flight on the horizon?

Is another Blue Origin flight on the horizon? Airspace restriction suggests Jeff Bezos will launch New Shepard again this weekend as Space X 'hover tests' its Dragon 2 | Federal Aviation Administration granted airspace restriction at launch site | Hopes are high Blue Origin may attempt to re-fly its New Shepard ship | Ship successfully blasted into space and landed again in December [Space Future: http://futuristicnews.com/category/future-space/]

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Two spacewalks ended by the same leaky spacesuit

Time to get a new spacesuit? Nasa astronaut Tim Kopra's helmet began filling with water during a spacewalk while he was wearing the same outfit that sparked a life-threatening leak three years ago [Space Future: http://futuristicnews.com/category/future-space/]

SpaceX Rocket vs. Robot Boat, Round 4! Tune in Live to the Grudge Fight

SpaceX Rocket vs. Robot Boat, Round 4! Tune in Live to the Grudge Fight [SpaceX: http://futuristicnews.com/tag/spacex/]