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With projects including new types of space telescopes, propulsion tech, and even a lunar railway system, NASA has invested in ingenious new ideas.

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 03, 2024 - One of the science fiction-like concepts - for a lunar railway system to provide payload transport on the Moon - is being developed at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASAs Innovative Adv

/PRNewswire/ -- The "Space Sensors and Actuators Market by Product Type (Sensors and Actuators), Platform (Satellites, Capsules\Cargos, Interplanetary...

/PRNewswire/ -- The "Space Sensors and Actuators Market by Product Type (Sensors and Actuators), Platform (Satellites, Capsules\Cargos, Interplanetary...

Several futuristic projects have just been awarded money through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts programme – here are New Scientist's top five choices

Collect the martian soil and rock and the national academy of sciences called that the number one solar system priority but as you say, now theyre talking about moving on to jupiter, nasa wants to visit their moon, uropa, is that a worthwhile project? >> it is. we have suspicions that not only mars might be an area for life but the subsurface ocean of uropa and jupiter could harbor life. what the scientists have to avoid getting into is whose science is better. i think the solution is to go to t...