Despite the early financial support from wealthy investors and the backing of well-known space-exploration researchers, Planetary Resources faces many technical questions and uncertainties about costs and the technology required to extract materials from asteroids.
Today's commercial rockets can lift only about 10 tons into space, far short of what is needed to enable deep-space exploration returning to the Moon, and later venturing on to Mars the things that are and should be NASA's core mission.
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If there is a common emotion among the astronauts, four decades after the Apollo achievement, it may be simple disappointment over space exploration -- or the lack of it.
There have been many critical moments in the history of space exploration -- Sputnik in 1957, Yuri Gagarin in 1961, Neil Armstrong in 1969 -- but if you look back over the history of manned happenings outside of the atmosphere, almost all of these moments were driven by government funds.
Of course our governors can encourage or mandate certain activities or stimulate or direct particular undertakings--land for railroad building in the 19th century, highway construction and space exploration in this one--but that's a far cry from directing the whole economy.
That is why I propose that Nichelle Nichols be appointed by the President as Ambassador-at-Large for Space Exploration.
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President Obama, appoint Nichelle Nichols as Ambassador-at-Large for Space Exploration.
FORBES: NASA, Got Space Exploration? Get Goals, Get Funding and Get Uhura.
At present, British government policy specifically bars any public programmes connected with human spaceflight, and it has directed that any monies instead go towards the robotic exploration of space - for example in Earth observation and unmanned planetary probes.
I'm obsessed with large-scale, atypical collaborations, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and everything in between, including superheroes, space exploration, and the Sex Pistols--all of which I occasionally write about.
FORBES: I��m interested in straight edge for the greater good.
Now Pell is back with a new start-up working on space exploration, Moon Express.
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Nonetheless, Mr O'Keefe and Mr Koptev have given the green light to a programme to build a US-Russian space probe for the exploration of Mars.
It's an attempt to bring some sunlit consistency to space exploration, simulating Earth-like lighting patterns to help keep the crew alert and get them ready for sleep in the evenings.
Widely considered the "Magna Carta of space law, " this treaty lays down the fundamental principle of non-appropriation and that the exploration and use of space shall be the province of all mankind.
Next week, Space Exploration Technologies plans to test-fly a space capsule called Dragon.
Engineers are already benefitting from Full's discovery as they are finding ways to build climbing robots with better tails that could in the future be used to aid in search-and-rescue operations or even space exploration.
However, most of the concrete problems between the two countries, such as disagreements over sea-bed exploration rights and air space, remain unresolved.
The Space Launch System will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago.
We need to reclaim the heyday of excellence in bold, scientific inquiry by re-identifying U.S. priorities in space exploration and space colonization and eventual commercialization.
FORBES: NASA, Got Space Exploration? Get Goals, Get Funding and Get Uhura.
The projects are: rigorous enforcement of trade rights, formulation of a national industrial strategy, cost-benefit testing of environmental rules, and reorganization of the space exploration program.
Entering the main exhibit, we're met by darkness and 40 seven-foot screens that will soon come to life, telling stories of space exploration, weather prediction and medicine.
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They are forward-thinking decision makers in banks, the military, government, health, robotics, space exploration, marine biology and many other categories.
And with space battles, phaser combat, and general exploration, it seems to have the ingredients of a good action-adventure game.
The finding demonstrates that people have a day-night cycle that must be respected, even when they're doing the demanding work of space exploration.
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