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Two Google Lunar X Prize teams are going to share a ride to the Moon next year
• http://www.theverge.com, by Loren GrushThe teams will use the same PSLV rocket
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Private moon rovers may visit the Apollo 17 landing site
• popsci.com By Sarah FechtGerman Xprize team sets its sights on a vintage moon buggy
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Scientists and Technocrats Team-up to Establish 'Asgardia,' the First Nation State in Space
• technocracy.news By Arthur Dominic VillasantaThere is a core value of modern Scientism that claims that earth is doomed and the only future for man lies in outer space. Nobody else believes this, but the Technocrats are very happy to use taxpayer money to fund their crackpot ambitions. ? TN E
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Spacex filed with FCC to operate 4400 satellites and Elon Musk Spacex shares are worth $8.1 billion
• nextbigfuture.comToday, SpaceX filed with the FCC to obtain the rights to operate 4,400 satellites to offer internet services from orbit, a plan that was announced last year.
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The hibernation science in 'Passengers' is not far from reality
• popsci.com By Jason LedermanSuspended animation may help us survive interplanetary travel, but it won't keep us alive for 120 years
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Extraterrestrial Gold Rush: What's Next for the Space Mining Industry?
• http://www.space.com, By Calla CofieldIf humans eventually want to become a space-faring species, we'll need to be able to collect basic resources, like water, straight from the space environment; it's too expensive and risky to send everything up from Earth, most experts agree.
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Elon Musk describes his vision for human habitats on Mars
• latimes.com By Samantha MasunagaSpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk answered questions about his plans to send humans to Mars in a Reddit Ask Me Anything session Sunday afternoon that prompted thousands of reader comments.
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In Pictures: Virgin Galactic's 1st Glide Flight of VSS Unity Spaceship
• http://www.space.com, By Hanneke WeiteringVirgin Galactic's 1st Glide Flight of VSS Unity Spaceship
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Galactic gold rush: the tech companies aiming to make space mining a reality
• theguardian.com by Dan TynanAsteroids and the moon contain vast quantities of natural resources, including water, that could be worth billions and fuel a new phase of space exploration
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Grail satellite analysis indicates lava tubes on the moon could be up to 1000 to 5000 .....
• nextbigfuture.comSlight variations in the moon's gravitational tug have hinted that kilometers-wide caverns lurk beneath the lunar surface.
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SpaceX's Elon Musk announces vision for colonizing Mars
• https://spaceflightnow.com/A glitzy reveal years in the making, included a description of architecture that could eventually ferry more than 100 to the red planet on each expedition, and thousands if SpaceX and its partners could muster support to build a fleet of boosters and
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Come on Hollywood, Give Us an X Prize Movie Already
• https://www.wired.com, GEEKS GUIDE TO THE GALMANY PEOPLE KNOW about the X Prize, the $10 million bounty that spurred the development of SpaceShipOne, the world's first private spaceship. But few people know about all the behind-the-scenes drama that plagued the prize from beginning to end.
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Virgin Galactic Signs Sky and Space Global to Four-Launch Deal
• http://www.space.com, By SpaceNews StaffVirgin Galactic announced a contract for four launches of satellites for a planned communications constellation.
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Jeff Bezos's New Rocket Will Be Bigger Than Elon Musk's
• popsci.com by Sarah FechtBut size isn't everything
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NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication in Deep Space
• space.com by Charles Q ChoiNew technology could use X-rays to transmit data at high rates over vast distances in outer space, as well as enable communications with hypersonic vehicles during re-entry, when radio communications are impossible, NASA scientists say.
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Mars ice deposit holds as much water as Lake Superior
• NASA/Jet Propulsion LaboratoryFrozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.
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How would sex work in space?
• http://www.theverge.com, by Angela ChenIt's more complicated than you might think
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Will Jeff Bezos win the space race?...
• dailymail.co.uk, By Libby Plummer and Abigail BealJeff Bezos' Blue Origin space firm has confirmed that it is still on schedule to send paying customers into orbit as soon as 2018.
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Here's How Extraterrestrial Farming Will Work on Mars
• http://www.space.com, By Ian O**Q**NeillLanding humans on Mars would be a momentous event in human history. To live beyond Earth's biosphere is a dream to many, but establishing a sustainable presence on the Red Planet will require mastering its environment.
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Elon Musk Explains Raptor Engine at IAC Congress Mexico | Engine test included
• youtube.comElon Musk Explains Raptor Engine at IAC Congress Mexico. Raptor engine test included. September 26 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk twitted: "SpaceX propulsion just achieved first firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine"
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China says tests of Propellentless EMDrive on Tiangong 2 space station were successful
• nextbigfuture.comDr. Chen Yue, Director of Commercial Satellite Technology for the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) announced on December 10, 2016 that not only has China successfully tested EmDrives technology in its laboratories, but that a proof-of-concept
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Africa Will Not Rise Until It Trades With Itself
• arcleinWhen African countries feature in Western politics, it's invariably a debate over aid versus trade. In September, Barack Obama hosted a forum in New York designed to promote trade between America and Africa. "From Senegal to South Africa, African
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LPP Fusion reviewed at Mars Conference
• nextbigfuture.comGerald Black - Nuclear Fusion is the solution to energy problems and to advance space propulsion
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SPACEX HIRES 'IRON MAN' COSTUME DESIGNER FOR ITS SPACESUITS
• http://www.newsweek.com"The look they are going to unveil in the next few months is something we created here in the studio. [Musk] wanted it to look stylish. It had to be practical but also needed to look great."
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CubeSats could soon be zooming around space under their own power
• newatlas.com by Lynda DelaceyRubik's-cube-sized CubeSats are a nifty, cheap way for scientists to put a research vessel into space, but they're limited to orbiting where they're launched – until now.
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Elon Musk's Plan To Get Us To Mars (In Less Than 90 Seconds)
• http://www.popsci.com, By Jason LedermanThe SpaceX CEO detailed his plan in a two-hour press conference
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Holidays on the moon will be possible in a DECADE - but a ticket will cost you £8000
• mirror.co.uk ByJeff ParsonsAdventurous holidaymakers could soon be packing for a lunar trip, as long as they're prepared to pay the astronomical ticket price
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Reviewing Space developments in 2016 and the next big future in space
• nextbigfuture.comThis is one of the Nextbigfuture article series reviewing developments in 2016 and looking ahead to developments over the next few years.
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Trump's newest adviser wants to mine the moon
• popsci.com By Sarah FechtThe addition of Charles Miller to the NASA "landing party" bodes well for private space companies
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Russian Airline Owner to Challenge Musk, Bezos in Space
• Yuliya Fedorinova, Andrey LemeshkoA Russian airline entrepreneur wants to join the space race, challenging Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin LLC with a plan to launch commercial rockets.
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Asteroid mining: The race for space riches
• newatlas.com by David SzondyThere's gold in them thar asteroids – also iron, nickel, copper and, most valuable of all, water.
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Popular Science's Spaceship Design Contest Winners!
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Russia is developing a mega-rocket that will transport supplies to build a base on the...
• dailymail.co.uk By Julian RobinsonVladimir Putin wants work to begin on a new 'super-heavy' space rocket Rocket would enable construction of a lunar base, Moscow has claimed Ambitious plan was unveiled by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin
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BEAM returning 'extremely valuable' data about expandable habitats
• http://www.spaceflightinsider.comHaving been attached to the International Space Station for six months, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, better known as BEAM, is already providing data that will inform the design of future human-rated expandable space habitats. The module wa
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UN and Sierra Nevada team up to take non-spacefaring nations into orbit
• http://newatlas.com, Dario BorghinoGetting into space is hard – so much so that, nearly 50 years after we put a man on the Moon, there are still only a handful of nations with the funds and technical capabilities to launch rockets into orbit and beyond.
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China Plans A Space Plane For Tourists
• http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. AthertonNo boosters included
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• http://www.perlanproject.orgAN ENGINELESS AIRCRAFT REACHING THE EDGE OF SPACE
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Rocket men: why tech's biggest billionaires want their place in space
• https://www.theguardian.com, by Dan TynanForget gilded mansions and super yachts. Among the tech elite, space exploration is now the ultimate status symbol
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Only Makes Sense that Spacex would use Raptor Engines for upgrading Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy
• nextbigfuture.comThe Spacex Raptor engines are a family of cryogenic, methane-fueled, rocket engines.
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Bootstrapping space industry and a solar system wide civilization with Robots and 3D printing
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comAdvances in robotics and additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies are game-changing for space colonization.
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Comparison Optical Telescope Primary Mirrors
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Lucy Mbabazi: How One Rwandan Woman Is Using Mobile Phone Technology to Change the World
• arcleinLucy found a perfect way to test pilot a system with the United Nations World Food Program [WFP], which had been looking to replace the costly process of donating food to nearly 15,000 Congolese refugees in the Gihembe camp in Northern Rwanda. "For
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