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THIS Could Send Astronauts To Other Planets

THIS Could Send Astronauts To Other Planets | Space matters | Scoop.it

A new online petition seeks to send people into space sooner, using a Kennedy-era technology that never had the chance to take flight. At We the People, a website that lets users submit petitions to the Obama Administration, one petition urges officials to "harness the full intellectual and industrial strength of our universities, national laboratories and private enterprise to rapidly develop and deploy a nuclear thermal rocket."

 

 

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A free-standing space elevator structure: A practical alternative to the space tether

York University scientists envision an inflatable kevlar elevator extending to the edge of space rather than a cable made of carbon nanotubes.

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Space Elevator conference in Redmond this week

A l'occasion de la conférence aura également lieu une compétition visant à construire le cable le plus solide possible.

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