Topic: European Space Agency

Hard-Driving

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Astronauts Get Augmented Reality Headsets

Dutch AR developer Layar announced a 3D API today--but this AR headset dwarfs their Android app. The Wearable Augmented Reality (or WEAR) headset was developed for astronauts to view schematics and specifications while ...READ MORE›

Skylon Rocketplane Brings Us One Flight Closer to Super-Cheap Space Launches

A million Euros of funding (around $1.25 million U.S.) has just been awarded to Reaction Engines Ltd. to develop a radical kind of space launcher known as the Skylon. Far from being a pencils-slim structure rocketing into the sky on ...READ MORE›

3-D Printing Whole Buildings in Stone...in Space: This Printer Rocks

Enrico Dini's brilliant-or-crazy (or both) prototype machine prints entire buildings in solid rock... On the MOON!READ MORE›

Now: May 2009

May MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN         01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 ...READ MORE›

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They Write the Right Stuff

As the 120-ton space shuttle sits surrounded by almost 4 million pounds of rocket fuel, exhaling noxious fumes, visibly impatient to defy gravity, its on-board computers take command.READ MORE›