space race
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Is Blue Origin’s Tourist Capsule Sexier Than SpaceX’s?
The space race between tech titans Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has been brewing for years, but recently, things have intensified to comic book levels of absurdity. Almost immediately after SpaceX announced it would be sending two private citizens around the moon next year, Jeff Bezos fired back by announcing Blue Origin’s plans to set…
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The Biggest Space Race Milestones Of 2016
Given how badly things are going here on planet Earth, it’s encouraging to see entrepreneurs working tirelessly to get us off this rock. From reusable rockets to Martian manifestos to asteroid mining, 2016 was a near like no other in the commercial space race. Here are the highlights.
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The First Commercial Asteroid Mining Could Start In Just Three Years
If Deep Space Industries has its way, there’ll be a small robotic lander on a nearby asteroid in just three years. That’s the latest phase of the California-based asteroid mining company’s plan to bring about an outer space real estate boom by creating a resource supply chain off Earth.
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This Collection Of Photos Shows The Rusted Past Of The US Space Race
Image Cache: When you think of NASA and our current rush to the stars, images of shiny Mars rovers or a speeding ISS come to mind. But the ghostly remnants of the United States’ space race still remains and photographer and professor Roland Miller has spend decades documenting their slow deterioration.