Humanity has always been fascinated with flying and its mortality and limits, and space exploration manages to combine both in the most enticing, eternally fascinating proposition. Those of us who will never come close to experiencing the real deal can always try to replicate that experience here on Earth.
This All-White Luxury Home Looks Like a Spaceship and a Prison Made a Fancy Baby 27 Apr 2021, 14:00 UTC ·
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As April is drawing to a close, so is
autoevolution’s Space Month virtual celebration. And, while this cover story won’t take you to space, hopefully, it will help you experience some of the claustrophobia and sense of awe that must accompany a mission there.
autoevolution 20 Apr 2021, 15:44 UTC ·
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If there is one thing we can say about space exploration, it is that this field of human enterprise sure is packed with crazy ideas. We’ve explored a bunch of them this April during autoevolution’s Space Month and in part thanks to NASA’s recently-announced Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. And we’re not nearly done. 1 photo
Coming today from the NIAC world is something called APPLE. That’s not the Apple you think, but short for Atomic Planar Power for Lightweight Exploration. We know, that doesn’t explain much, but read on.
The concept, created by Joseph Nemanick from the Aerospace Corporation, is described as
I remember growing up and seeing the stars on a clear night. I would sit for hours on end and wonder what was going on up there. Today, I still do that, but companies like Celestron are helping me get a better view.
Power Your Hunt for Alien Life With the Easy-to-Use StarSense Explorer Telescope 20 Apr 2021, 8:34 UTC ·
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If you’re one of the people that grew up peering into the night sky with nothing more than your God-given 20/20 vision, I got good news for you. By now, you’re probably an adult and even have kids of your own, so why not give them something you never had, and in the process, get what you never had too?
autoevolution 14 Apr 2021, 15:27 UTC ·
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Ever since we began taking a closer look at the projects included by NASA in the Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program as part of our Space Month coverage, we’ve seen some incredible, at times mind-twisting, concepts. None of them is, however, as extreme as this one here. 1 photo
In fact, the idea is so out of this world that it’s not even properly explained yet, and doesn’t even have a name. All its creator, Glenn Research Center s Steven Oleson, has to say about it is that the endeavor is
“an order of magnitude more difficult [.] than other sample return missions.” Yet NASA found it appealing enough to back it in the early stages of the NIAC program.
autoevolution 12 Apr 2021, 11:08 UTC ·
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Given how NASA has made it its goal to land on the Moon and eventually become a resident there, countless companies and individuals have begun working on technologies to back this ambitious plan. And a lot of crazy ideas come through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program announced a couple of months ago. 1 photo
We’ve already covered most of the ideas backed by the American space agency through this program, but the one we have here today is nothing short of brilliant. In a literal sense, as it is all about bending and beaming light.