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So where are the extraterrestrial beings?
Not so very long ago, astronomers were theorising about life on practically every planet in the solar system whereas today the Earth is sometimes envisaged as the only haven for living beings... have the extraterrestrial beings disappeared in-between times?
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The rapid growth of New Space
For several years, entrepreneurs have been aspiring to develop a new approach to the space industry and targeting a reduction in launch costs. Is the private sector going to revolutionise human space flight?
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Avatar’s Venture Star
The spaceship from James Cameron’s film is far less fanciful than it appears and even plausibly deals with several problems posed by interstellar travel.
NASA for iPhone and iPod Touch
The American Space Agency is offering free software to users of Apple’s mobile equipment. It works with both iPhone and iPod Touch (provided that you are connected to a local WiFi network). This “NASA App” is a kind of portal that assembles and classifies the agency’s official news (text, images and videos) as well has having a navigation system that highlights the touch screen ergonomics. Be careful, however, when the application starts up as it does not seem to be listing all of NASA’s missions. You have to open the “Filter” menu in the top right hand corner and check the categories that you want to follow (Earth, Moon and Mars, Launch, etc.) in order to refresh the list and make it more complete, possibly by selecting everything. Without this manipulation, a mission as significant as Hubble, for instance, is not even covered! Once this ergonomic “error” has been corrected, the “NASA App” is full of promise.
“NASA App” presented on the agency’s website
Published on 4 November 2009
