Vitalik Buterin on Elon Musk, Mars, & AI.

Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin,  shared thoughts on how Elon Musk’s goal of going to Mars is a good thing for humanity. “It’s  an earnest attempt to unite humanity around an open frontier and positive-sum goals (man vs nature instead of man vs man), which reduces the chance we’ll create unfriendly AIs in an effort to […]

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NASA awards contract to build first rocket designed to launch from Mars

NASA has selected Lockheed Martin, an American aerospace and defense company, to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a tiny rocket that will likely become the first to launch from another planet. “Committing to the Mars Ascent Vehicle represents an early and concrete step to hammer out the details of this ambitious project not just […]

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SpaceX details plan to build Mars Base Alpha with reusable Starship rockets

For the first time, SpaceX has teamed up with researchers from NASA and several other US institutions to publicly discuss how it plans to use Starship to build Mars Base Alpha. Save for a handful of comments spread around the periphery of SpaceX and CEO Elon Musk’s main focus, Starship itself, the company and its […]

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SpaceX could land Starship on Mars in 2024, says Elon Musk

Four years after Elon Musk revealed “aspirational” plans to launch Starships to Mars in 2022, the SpaceX CEO now believes that 2024 is a more accurate target. For SpaceX, that two-year ‘delay’ is more impressive than anything given that the company practically restarted Starship development from scratch a year after Musk set the 2022 target. […]

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NASA aces most challenging Mars rover landing to date

After a nearly 300 million mile (480 million kilometer), seven-month-long journey, the world watched as NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission successfully completed the most challenging and precise landing the agency has ever attempted on Thursday (Feb. 18). Perseverance is NASA’s fifth rover and overall ninth mission to successfully land on the Red Planet. On Thursday […]

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SpaceX’s Crew-1 NASA astronauts celebrate Mars rover landing in Earth orbit

SpaceX’s Crew-1 NASA astronauts and the rest of the International Space Station crew are celebrating the space agency’s latest historic Mars landing in Earth orbit. The culmination of more than half a decade of work and a several hundred million million mile journey through deep space, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have managed to […]

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NASA braces for ‘7 minutes of terror’ as rover, rocket crane near Mars

NASA’s most ambitious – and difficult – Mars rover mission to date is nearly at the end of its interplanetary journey, but it is just the beginning of the excitement. On Tuesday (Feb. 16) engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) confirmed that Perseverance is doing well and is prepared to attempt a touchdown at […]

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NASA Mars rover promises blazing entrance after China, UAE make it to Mars orbit

The month of the robotic invasion of Mars is upon us. Seven months ago, the United States, China, and the United Arab Emirates launched missions on a 300 million mile (480 million kilometer) journey to Mars. Last week, two of the three missions quietly arrived and inserted themselves into Mars orbit. The final spacecraft to […]

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confident Starship will launch humans to Mars by 2026

CEO Elon Musk says that he is “highly confident” that SpaceX will be ready to attempt its first crewed Starship mission to Mars as soon as 2026 – almost exactly six years from now. Made as part of an interview at the 2020 Axel Springer Awards show in Germany, Musk’s latest comments represent a marked […]

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NASA prepares to collect asteroid samples next week in deep space OSIRIS-REx mission

NASA currently has an orbiter circling the asteroid Bennu about 200 million miles from Earth, and a live streamed attempt to collect a sample from its surface will be made next week. The mission, OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer), was developed to help improve our understanding of asteroid impact risks and study […]

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