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LA-Based CGI Artist Imagines a Future Where Humans Race Vehicles on Mars 20 Apr 2021, 15:27 UTC · by Imagine for a moment that you’re a settler on a growing Mars colony, and you’re a bit bored. Since it’s Saturday, you and a few other members decided to have some fun racing. Remember, you’re on Mars, so all that is bound to be a bit different. One way your race day could unfurl is the way Daniel Trbovic reveals in the gallery and video below. Mr. Trbovic is a CGI artist and photographer living out of Los Angeles, California. Aside from creating renderings like these, he also tr...

autoevolution 19 Apr 2021, 9:02 UTC · by 1 photo The event was initially supposed to take place on the weekend of April 10 but failed to do so on account of a watchdog timer expiration, a software glitch that prevented the machine from going into flight mode. It took NASA engineers more than a week to come up with a fix after pondering two approaches. The first consisted of “adding a few commands to the flight sequence.” The commands were written relatively fast, but NASA had to put them to the test both on Earth and on Mars before deciding that’s the right recipe.

autoevolution 18 Apr 2021, 5:27 UTC · by 1 photo Their mission began on October 14th, 2020, when their spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Now, after half a year, the three space travelers are ready to head back to their homes on Earth. On March 19th, the trio boarded the Soyuz MS-17 " for a port relocation maneuver, moving the spacecraft from the Rassvet module to the space-facing port of the Poisk module. The relocation allowed the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft and its crew to dock to the Rassvet module upon their arrival on April 9th." This weekend, the capsule ...

NASA has announced the company that will help land Americans on the surface of the Moon again, and then, hopefully, farther off on other planets and on Mars: SpaceX.

autoevolution 16 Apr 2021, 14:21 UTC · by Back in 2017, a University of Hawaii telescope discovered a strangely-shaped object we ended up calling Oumuamua. Some claimed it was an alien spaceship, others just a piece of interstellar rock that just happened to wander into our solar system, but the sad reality is we’ll never know. 1 photo That’s because the damn thing was too far away to see properly. When first detected, it was at a distance of 21 million miles (33 million km), but it was already on its way towards the Sun and fast. We presently have no spacecraft capable of chasing ...