NASA Gives Us a First Look at the Airplanes of 2025
17 Jan 2011, 18:08 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Late last year, NASA awarded three contacts to teams from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing, to study what future aircraft designs could look like in 2025. Now, NASA is giving us a previe...
HANS Going to Outer Space
27 Dec 2010, 07:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two worlds have collided in 2010 perhaps more than they have ever collided before. Maybe for the first time in history, a great level of collaboration between the automotive and space exploration in...
New Mars Rover Gets Laser Weapons
26 Dec 2010, 12:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Martians, beware! The new Mars Rover is coming, and this time it brings some Earth-made weapons with it. Well, not quite, but at least Martian rocks will get their brains zapped when the next Ma...
Buzz Aldrin Endorses Private Space Vehicles
21 Dec 2010, 06:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the past year or so, we have witnessed the growth of a brave new industry. Spearheaded by Virgin Galactic, one of the many companies owned by Sir Richard Branson, the race for the creation of a ...
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Space Shuttle Slow Motion Launch [Long Video]
12 Dec 2010, 12:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We've all seen, for decades now, on various TV shows and documentaries, how space shuttles are launched. Strapped to their towers on the launch pads, the space shuttles await for days at times ...
Shuttle Launch Delayed
19 Nov 2010, 08:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Another delay in the launch of the last mission of space shuttle Discovery is also postponing the moment when the first humanoid robot will reach space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administra...
Flat-Free Tire Honored at the R&D 100 Awards
15 Nov 2010, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2009, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), together with tire maker Goodyear, presented the Spring Tire, a very special piece of rubber meant for traveling on the moon ...
Discovery Launch Delayed
30 Oct 2010, 07:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Bad news for the crew of the space shuttle Discovery and their unlikely companion, the Robonaut 2: due to some helium and nitrogen leaks, the launch of the shuttle has been delayed. The new take off...
Robonauts: The Future in Robot Hands
26 Oct 2010, 08:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Even if the glory of the early days of space exploration is pretty much gone (mostly because of the lack of any notable results in the field since landing on the Moon), there are still some people o...
Robonaut 2 Flies to Outer Space
26 Oct 2010, 05:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The moment American manufacturer GM and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have been preparing for is approaching: next week, space shuttle Discovery will leave the planet, car...
Robonaut 2 Gets in Shape for 1st Space Flight
7 Jul 2010, 19:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As announced this April, the robot built by American manufacturer GM together with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will take to space this fall, in what some might consider ...
From Rockets to Race Cars in Charlotte
26 May 2010, 10:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / “Hold on to your hats race fans, NASA is coming to NASCAR. From better brakes and safer tires to heat-resistant paint and cleaner emissions, NASA's contributions to the racing world will ...
Caterpillar Supporting NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition
24 May 2010, 14:27 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Caterpillar announced it will be offering support for the NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition, which will be held at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 27-28.The event is aimed ...
NASA Teams-up with NASCAR
27 Apr 2010, 12:12 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The automotive industry has always sought inspiration from its aeronautics and space big sister for developing innovations that would allow it to create meaner (and even greener) racing vehicles, wi...
Robonaut 2, the First Human-Like Robot to Fly into Space
15 Apr 2010, 07:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new historic moment is in the making these days in the US, as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is getting ready to launch into space the Robonaut 2. If successful, the robo...
Chrysler Partners with... NASA
13 Apr 2010, 13:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It would appear the automotive sector becomes more and more appealing for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). After last month several NASA experts were drafted by the US gover...
NAS Joins Quest for Toyota's Evil Unicorn
31 Mar 2010, 14:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The more, the merrier... After NHTSA and NASA itself, another investigation into the mysterious problem which accelerates Toyotas will be opened by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). So, we can...
Houston, Toyota Has a Problem: NASA Steps In
30 Mar 2010, 10:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / T minus 16 seconds: take foot of accelerator. T minus 10 seconds: put foot on brake pedal. 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... apply brake... 3... brake!... 2... BRAKE!!!... 1... brake fail, we have...
NASA Robonaut 2 - Beep Boop Beep Beep Boop Beep Beep Beep
4 Feb 2010, 14:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After Honda and, more recently Toyota, American manufacturer GM previewed a new humanoid robot capable of working side by side with people, dubbed for the time being Robonaut R2. Yet unlike the two ...
Goodyear and NASA Develop Spring Moon Tire
4 Aug 2009, 10:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In light of the upcoming return of the human race to the Moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has partnered, among others, with Goodyear for the development of an airless t...