Monday, December 05, 2011

Are the Durban Climate Talks—or Climate Talks in General—Doomed? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

Are the Durban Climate Talks—or Climate Talks in General—Doomed? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network:

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Say it ain't so, Joe! We can't be doomed. To quote T.S. Eliot in Hollow Men, we will go out not with a bang (nuclear holocaust), but with a whimper (climate changed to death)!

Thursday, December 01, 2011

The Future of Deep-Space Exploration: In-Depth Reports

The Future of Deep-Space Exploration: In-Depth Reports

The Future of Deep-Space Exploration

When humankind once again ventures out from Earth's neighborhood, where will we go? And how will we get there?

Scientific American Magazine

This Way to Mars

By adapting ideas from robotic planetary exploration, the human space program could get astronauts to asteroids and Mars cheaply and quickly

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Interactive Features

Breaking the Deep Space Barrier

How a spacecraft propelled by ion drives could deliver humanity deeper into space than ever before

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Observations

Forget Asteroids--Send a Manned Flyby Mission to Venus

Why not add our closest planetary neighbor to the list of destinations for astronauts to visit in the coming decades?

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Features

How an Energy-Efficient Spacecraft Could Revolutionize Space Travel [Video]

In a Skype interview, Damon Landau and Nathan J. Strange of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory talk about the radical mission proposal they laid out in the December issue of Scientific American

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More in this Report

News

Obama's Goals for Space Exploration Include a Manned Mission to Mars Orbit in the 2030s

In a speech from Florida's Space Coast, the president argued the case for his proposed NASA budget and outlined his vision for human spaceflight

Apr 15, 2010

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