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A new 9,000-square-foot, 3-story spaceship called "Second Solar" has just been constructed in the German city of Böblingen, designed to travel to distant solar systems to research inhabitable environments. It's loaded up with "giant engines, a thermal shell to protect the crew and landing runners designed to cope with unknown surface conditions." read more »
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Finnair thinks it knows how your children's children might be flying around the skies (and space) in about 90 years. One way might be in a flashy personal craft; another way could be a slick hybrid craft that transitions from 35,000ft. to low earth orbit with ease. The planes each have that sleek look we'd expect the future to have, but I think Finnair needs to try a bit harder.This is the future read more »
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In the not-to-distant future, astronauts prepare for a launch at the Kennedy Space Center, but they will not be boarding any rocket-driven spacecraft read more »
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Some Scientists and astronomers on Earth have already started thinking that Earth is not going to hold the damage done by humans for more time. read more »
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Scientists from all over the world are trying to find another Earth in the endless universe.

Researchers like Robert Zubrin have developed plans t read more »
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With two currently functioning orbiters, and five more missions planned in the next year, Earth's Moon may soon have seven active probes operated by read more »
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NASA will likely shut down its Institute for Advanced Concepts, which funds research into futuristic – and often far-out – ideas in spaceflight and a read more »
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