The U.S. military’s hush-hush robotic X-37B space plane is slated to blast off again next month, Air Force officials say. The mission will test the robotic spacecraft’s reusability and may eventually land on the Florida runway once used for NASA space shuttles. The X-37B space plane’s next mission —called Orbital …
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A growing network of NASA cameras is providing dramatic images of meteors as they streak across the night sky, and may eventually protect astronauts in space. “If you have an object that’s picked up by multiple cameras, you can figure out speed, direction and height,” said David Dundee, an astronomer …
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You wouldn’t want a deathstalker scorpion in your boot. But it could save your life. Tarantula venom may seem frightful. But medically speaking, it’s awesome. And gila monster spit? Great stuff, if you have diabetes. They’re just a few examples of a fascinating area of research using the venom from …
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Russia’s space agency announced Wednesday that the International Space Station — a space base the world’s scientists and billions of U.S. tax dollars helped build and maintain some 200 miles above the surface of the Earth — will be de-orbited and allowed to sink into the Pacific Ocean in 2020, …
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It’s summer, and that can mean only one thing. Will Smith will travel back in time and come face to face with an alternate universe. And an alien vessel will land on a forbidden planet in a movie directed by Ridley Scott that involves a woman dressed in a skintight …
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