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Report questions the safety of NASA's plan to get to Mars by 2030s There's concern over the lack of detail. FIONA MACDONALD 18 JAN 2016 Last year, NASA announced its three-step plan to land humans on Mars by the 2030s, and as you might expect, it was pretty ambitious. But now an annual report...

Ladies and gentlemen, here is your flying car. Promised by the Americans, delivered by the Chinese. http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/06/the-ehang-184-is-a-human-sized-drone-taking-off-at-ces/

Not really news, rather a historical discovery. Some one has gained entry into Energia/Buran VAB in Baikonur. And found an Energia-M rocket inside. Photos here: http://ralphmirebs.livejournal.com/220278.html

This artist’s rendering illustrates new findings about a star shredded by a black hole. When a star wanders too close to a black hole, intense tidal forces rip the star apart. In these events, called “tidal disruptions,” some of the stellar debris is flung outward at high speed while the rest...

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/76866912/ Enjoy!

When programming Orbiter add-ons in LUA, a rather irritating problem is that the built-in run() function when fed with a script containing errors will only signal errors by saying Execution error. without giving the location of the error. With long scripts, this leads to lengthy bug hunts...

European Rover Challenge 2015 will take place in Chęciny, Poland, September 5-6 2015. So far 39 teams have confirmed participation. http://www.roverchallenge.eu/ The event is open to the public, so mark your calendars and book your tickets! See also photos from last year

I believe that this deserves its own thread. Ladies and gentlemen, the finest space video of the year: Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist on Vimeo More -> http://imgur.com/a/Ur5dP http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/film.html

See also Entire album on imgur (102 images) European Rover Challenge 2014 took place September 5-7, 2014 in Chęciny, Poland. The event was organized by Mars Society Polska, and it included: - a competition of Mars rovers (which is the main topic of this post). This was the first competence of...

NOTE: Per the discussion on reddit, the numbers include gravity losses and losses due to atmospheric drag during ascent. Hence delta-v for Earth ascent is 9km/s instead of 7km/h, and Venus ascent is 27 km/s.

...so I was watching the music video for Iron Maiden's 2 minutes to midnight on youtube, and I have noticed that the video's protagonist(?) has a model rocket on his table (among other, um, weird things). It can be seen several times in the video, and it is even shown in close-up once: (Yes...

I'm going to New York next week. Are there any (aero-)space related things worth a visit?

Does anyone know what add-on is this?

Today, I have learned about the existence of a game named Goat Simulator, which allows the player to control, you've guessed it, a goat. After I stopped laughing, I have realized that animals are sadly under-represented in the Orbiter universe, with the exception of a seagull: And we could...

Last update (2014-02-03) in RED. Orb::Connect Web Edition Bringing Orbiter into the Web era! Launch checklist: 1. Unpack the attached add-on 2. Enable OrbConnect.dll module. 3. Launch the simulation. 4. Open http://127.0.0.1:38888/ in a Web browser. 5. Try clicking around the panel :)...

http://www.universetoday.com/107979/spaceshiptwo-goes-supersonic-in-third-test-flight/ Virgin Galactic's Third Powered Flight - YouTube

http://www.astrowatch.net/2013/10/nasas-j-2x-engine-to-be-mothballed.html

Keyboard remapping for fun and profit! - Are you dissatified with default key bindings in Orbiter? - Do you want to use a cheap keyboard / keypad in your simpit, but feel too limited by the default layout of controls? - Would you like to use multiple keyboards? - Would you like to send...

As if closing of NTRS was not bad enough... http://nasawatch.com/archives/2013/03/nasa-cancels-al.html

Apparently, this is a knee-jerk reaction after the arrest of a Chinese NASA employee for transferring confidetial information to China. http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=40365 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2013/03/ntrs_dark.html