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NASA’s Real Space Cowboys Wrangle Asteroids

Megan Moten — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:30:02 +0000

The idea of harvesting resources from asteroids long predates space travel, and NASA is now taking the first steps toward bringing those celestial bodies down to Earth. Plans are being made for an entirely robotic spaceship able to haul a typical nearby asteroid, about 25 feet long and 500 tons, to a position near the […]

Forty-three Years Later, Remembering The Largely Forgotten Apollo 12

Rick Diehl — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:00:51 +0000

Looking out across the Atlantic Ocean from the shore of Cape Canaveral, as far as the eye could see, the sky was gray with low clouds and a light rainfall pattering across the choppy waves. It had been raining the morning of November 14, 1969 and mission control at Kennedy Space Center in Florida had […]