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autoevolution 6 Apr 2021, 11:07 UTC · by 1 photo Starship is how Elon Musk and SpaceX presently call the prototypes of the ultimate spaceship, which will likely take humans to Mars for the first time. Many years probably have to pass before that actually happens, but tests of the technology are already underway. One after the other, four Starship prototypes—SN8, SN9, SN10, SN11—took off and ended up exploding in various positions and for various reasons. And all of these events were caught on tape, of course. The last to attempt a perfect takeoff and landing combo was the SN11. It ...

autoevolution 5 Apr 2021, 12:34 UTC · by On Tuesday, April 6 at 1:45 p.m. EDT, engineers will drop a 14,000-pound test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The huge reservoir measures 115 feet long (35 meters) and 90 feet (27 meters) wide and it is filled with 1 million gallons of water. 1 photo The water impact tests of the Orion are part of the formal qualification program to fulfill the structural design and requirement verification before Artemis II, NASA’s first mission with crew aboard Orion. This seri...

Do not be afraid of what you see. Even though the robotics industry has been making huge progress lately, it hasn’t quite reached the level you see here.

32-Foot Vertical Solar Panels to Power NASA Moon Base 5 Apr 2021, 9:14 UTC · by By the middle of the current decade, humans will once again set foot on the Moon. The main difference is that now we’re going up there to stay, and that includes building a space station around the satellite and eventually a base on the ground. 1 photo The landing spot for Artemis III, the mission that will land a man and a woman on the Moon, is scheduled to touch down in 2024 at the lunar South Pole. That’s where NASA envisions “lunar habitats, rovers, and even construction systems for future roboti...

autoevolution 5 Apr 2021, 14:11 UTC · by There probably isn’t a more complex process out there than putting together a spacecraft. No matter the task envisioned for it by Earth-based engineers, a spacecraft is one of the most complex pieces of machinery in exitence. And like most other machinery, they need to be tested very thoroughly. 1 photo The American space agency has one of the most rigorous such programs in existence. Take the Orion capsule that will head for the Moon with humans on board in a few years’ time. Not only is it subjected to hard testing on the ground, but it ...