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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.
Send your name to Venus
JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency is to send the Akatsuki probe to Venus in 2010. You can take advantage of this operation and place your name and a short message in orbit around the Earth’s sister planet! Both names and messages are to be engraved on aluminium plates affixed to the probe. Don’t delay, you only have until 10 January 2010.
Akatsuki mission
Specific Internet page for sending your name and message
Published on 29 December 2009
