Tag: space
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Students Form Microsatellite Rocket Launch Company
Current and former Purdue University engineering students transformed their interest in rocketry into a new enterprise for launching small lower-cost satellites into low-earth orbit from high-altitude balloons.
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Techniques Devised to Speed-Up Plant Breeding
Plant scientists in Australia and the U.K. developed a process that sharply cuts the amount of time needed to produce new breeds of plant crops including commercial varieties of wheat.
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Will We Live To See Mars Colonized?
Humanity has overcome some pretty steep odds in the past, so who knows. Is colonizing Mars actually viable?
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Parkinson’s Protein Experiment in Space Station Cargo
An experiment to grow a crystallized form of protein associated with Parkinson’s disease is among the cargo that lifted off today from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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Organ Chips to be Studied on Space Station
A range of biological functions will be assessed with model organs on plastic chips in a series of experiments on the International Space Station.
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Cancer Center to Test Focused Radiation Therapy
MD Anderson Cancer Center is testing new radiation treatments for cancer designed to reduce adverse side effects of conventional radiation therapy.
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Stem Cells Launched on Current SpaceX Flight
Yesterday’s SpaceX launch from NASA’s Kennedy Spaceflight Center includes a shipment of adult stem cells to test their growth and proliferation in weightless conditions.
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Spacecraft Returns with Space Station Research Samples
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft returned today with samples from several biomedical research studies conducted by astronauts on the International Space Station.
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Report from Maker Faire: Plastic Recycling Made in Space
Report from Maker Faire: Made In Space and Lowe’s stores displayed a system that recycles polyethylene plastic bags and bottles into filament for 3-D printers.
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Collaboration Explores Humanitarian Satellite Applications
28 April 2016. A start-up satellite imaging provider and agency of the United Nations are partnering on new ways to use satellite imaging to further the UN’s humanitarian, peace-keeping, and climate change mitigation missions. Financial terms between BlackSky Global LLC in Seattle and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, or Unitar, were not…