April 15, 2012
"We’re moving quickly to develop options for future Mars exploration missions and pathways. As part of this process, community involvement, including international, is essential for charting the new agency-wide strategy for our future Mars exploration efforts"

— Quote by John Grunsfeld, an astrophysicist, five-time space shuttle astronaut and associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.  Quote found in a NASA press release titled:  “NASA Planning Group Takes Key Steps for Future Mars Exploration”

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Filed under: mars space nasa exploration 
April 2, 2012
"If you take the current global daily Internet traffic and multiply it by two, you are in the range of the data set that the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will be collecting every day. This is Big Data Analytics to the extreme. With DOME we will embark on one of the most dataintensive science projects ever planned, which will eventually have much broader applications beyond radio astronomy research."

— Quote by Ton Engbersen of IBM Research, Zurich.  Quote found in an Astron press release titled “ASTRON and IBM collaborate to explore origins of Universe”

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Filed under: Aston dome ibm-research ibm big-data analytics bigdata ska astronomy data green power telescope space 
March 31, 2012
"It will use six 747 engines, have a gross weight of more than 1.2 million pounds and a wingspan of more than 380 feet. For takeoff and landing, it will require a runway 12,000 feet long."

— Quote describes the Stratolaunch System aircraft launch vehicle.  Quote found in a Space Exploration Technologies Corporation press release titled: “PAUL G. ALLEN ANNOUNCES REVOLUTION IN SPACE TRANSPORTATION”

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Filed under: space stratolaunch launch 
March 31, 2012
"We are at the dawn of radical change in the space launch industry. Stratolaunch Systems is pioneering an innovative solution that will revolutionize space travel."

— Quote by Paul Allen, Founder Stratolaunch Systems.  Quote found in a press release at by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation titled:  “PAUL G. ALLEN ANNOUNCES REVOLUTION IN SPACE TRANSPORTATION”

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Filed under: space stratolaunch paul_allen travel 
March 20, 2012
"My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there. The whole system [must be] reusable - nothing is thrown away. That’s very important because then you’re just down to the cost of the propellant. We will probably unveil the overall strategy later this year in a little more detail, but I’m quite confident that it could work and that ultimately we could offer a round trip to Mars that the average person could afford - let’s say the average person after they’ve made some savings."

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Quote by Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO.  Quote found at an online BBC News article titled “Mars for the ‘average person’”

Mars Spacex

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Filed under: spacex mars elon-musk space nasa rocket capsule 
November 26, 2011
"We are very excited about sending the world’s most advanced scientific laboratory to Mars. MSL will tell us critical things we need to know about Mars, and while it advances science, we’ll be working on the capabilities for a human mission to the Red Planet and to other destinations where we’ve never been."

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Quote by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.  Quote found at Mars Science Laboratory: NASA Launches Most Capable and Robust Rover To Mars

Curiosity Launch

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Filed under: curiosity mars NASA Space 
August 10, 2011
"In what appears to be seriously big news from a team of NASA-funded researchers, scientists have found evidence that some building blocks of DNA—including two of the four nucleobases that make up our genetic code—found in meteorites were created in space, lending credence to the idea that life is not homegrown but was seeded here by asteroids, meteorites, or comets sometime in Earth’s early lifetime."

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Quote from a August 9, 2011 Popular Science Article:   Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space

Meteorite and DNA

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Filed under: DNA meteorite NASA research space life human genetic origins 
November 9, 2010
"NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy."

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Quote from online NASA article “NASA’s Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy”

Nasa Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope

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Filed under: nasa space gamma-rays fermi telescope milky-way astrophysics 
September 1, 2010
"Future astronauts might end up living in a moon base created largely from lunar dust and regolith, if a giant 3-D printing device can work on the lunar surface. D-Shape has created full-size sandstone buildings on Earth by using a 3-D printing process similar to how inkjet printers work. It adds a special inorganic binder to sand so that it can build a structure from the bottom up, one layer at a time. The device raises its printer head by just 5 to 10 millimeters for each layer, moving from side to side on horizontal beams as well as up and down on four metal frame columns."

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Quote found at 3D Printing Device Could Build Moon Base from Lunar Dust via A Smarter Planet Tumblr Blog

D-Shape

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Filed under: 3D-Printing Lunar Moon NASA Space ESA 
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