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Killer Asteroids Abound. NASA Is Ready To Do Something About It
On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.
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Feud Between Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos Gets More Pointed
The cosmic carping between billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is moving from the moon to low-earth orbit.
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Watch: Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship Lands, Then Explodes
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s newest and biggest rocket pulled off its first successful landing, then exploded a brief time later and was engulfed by fire.
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First Look Inside Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Cabin For The Very Rich
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inchas all these covered in the cabin of its VSS Unity, which it unveiled Tuesday in a virtual media tour designed to evoke the same upscale aesthetic Virgin Group has pursued for its commercial airlines, airport lounges, hotels and planned cruise line.
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"Not Concept, It's Reality": Next-Gen Plane To Track Your Bathroom Visits
Attention airline bathroom loiterers: The next generation of Airbus aircraft will track how long you've been in there. It's all part of an effort to make commercial cabins a digitally aware domain. The program is Airbus's bid to raise the Internet of Things-that buzz-phrase for connected household gadgets-to cruising altitude.
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Google Makes New Push to Bolster Travel-Related Searches
Google may be commonly used as a verb for looking for information, but in the online travel world the technology giant isn't a go-to destination.
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Virgin Galactic Plans First Commercial Space Flight for This Year
Virgin Galactic could actually start flying customers later this year. Branson has said he will be among the first passengers.
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On This Airline, Your Flight Attendant Is Now Accepting Tips
Use your credit card to buy a taco, a beer or a taxi ride, and it's very likely the receipt screen will solicit a tip. A few years ago, that same option arrived on airlines, to the chagrin of passengers who remember when most food and drink up there was free.
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NASA Unveils Program Aimed At Preventing An Asteroid Apocalypse
Among Earth's natural disasters-hurricanes, floods, earthquakes-the one humans probably ponder least is asteroids, huge objects zipping through our solar system at ludicrous speeds.
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The US Army Is Planning New, More Complex Battlefield Robots
Militaries seek to make each one ever-more lethal and, in doing so, better protect the soldier who wields it. But in the next evolution of combat, the U.S. Army is heading down a path that may lead humans off the battlefield entirely.
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Airports Are Using 'Smart Glass' To Make You Spend More Money
There are many depictions of a future in which we've mastered the art of manipulating the opacity of glass. Even in real life, sunglasses can adapt to the intensity of sunlight. So why, one might ask, can't we have that in our homes, or at work?
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This Hotel Will Cost $792,000 A Night, And Will Be 200 Miles Above Earth
Aboard the International Space Station, an astronaut's life is typically work, exercise, rest, repeat. But what if your chance of having the right stuff for NASA's astronaut corps is, to say the least, minimal?
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Why America's Two Best Fighter Jets Can't Talk To Each Other
With the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II, the U.S. has fielded two of the world's most sophisticated, maneuverable and stealthy fighter jets. They both function as airborne shepherds of America's flock of older combat aircraft
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Why America's Two Best Fighter Jets Can't Talk To Each Other
With the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II, the U.S. has fielded two of the world's most sophisticated, maneuverable and stealthy fighter jets. They both function as airborne shepherds of America's flock of older combat aircraft
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America's Fastest Spy Plane Could Be Back - With Top Secret Changes
For years, Lockheed Martin has been developing a successor to one of the fastest aircraft the world has ever seen, the SR-71 Blackbird, the Cold War reconnaissance craft that the U.S. Air Force retired almost three decades ago.
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Killer Asteroids Abound. NASA Is Ready To Do Something About It
On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.
-
Feud Between Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos Gets More Pointed
The cosmic carping between billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is moving from the moon to low-earth orbit.
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Watch: Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship Lands, Then Explodes
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s newest and biggest rocket pulled off its first successful landing, then exploded a brief time later and was engulfed by fire.
-
First Look Inside Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Cabin For The Very Rich
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inchas all these covered in the cabin of its VSS Unity, which it unveiled Tuesday in a virtual media tour designed to evoke the same upscale aesthetic Virgin Group has pursued for its commercial airlines, airport lounges, hotels and planned cruise line.
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"Not Concept, It's Reality": Next-Gen Plane To Track Your Bathroom Visits
Attention airline bathroom loiterers: The next generation of Airbus aircraft will track how long you've been in there. It's all part of an effort to make commercial cabins a digitally aware domain. The program is Airbus's bid to raise the Internet of Things-that buzz-phrase for connected household gadgets-to cruising altitude.
-
Google Makes New Push to Bolster Travel-Related Searches
Google may be commonly used as a verb for looking for information, but in the online travel world the technology giant isn't a go-to destination.
-
Virgin Galactic Plans First Commercial Space Flight for This Year
Virgin Galactic could actually start flying customers later this year. Branson has said he will be among the first passengers.
-
On This Airline, Your Flight Attendant Is Now Accepting Tips
Use your credit card to buy a taco, a beer or a taxi ride, and it's very likely the receipt screen will solicit a tip. A few years ago, that same option arrived on airlines, to the chagrin of passengers who remember when most food and drink up there was free.
-
NASA Unveils Program Aimed At Preventing An Asteroid Apocalypse
Among Earth's natural disasters-hurricanes, floods, earthquakes-the one humans probably ponder least is asteroids, huge objects zipping through our solar system at ludicrous speeds.
-
The US Army Is Planning New, More Complex Battlefield Robots
Militaries seek to make each one ever-more lethal and, in doing so, better protect the soldier who wields it. But in the next evolution of combat, the U.S. Army is heading down a path that may lead humans off the battlefield entirely.
-
Airports Are Using 'Smart Glass' To Make You Spend More Money
There are many depictions of a future in which we've mastered the art of manipulating the opacity of glass. Even in real life, sunglasses can adapt to the intensity of sunlight. So why, one might ask, can't we have that in our homes, or at work?
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This Hotel Will Cost $792,000 A Night, And Will Be 200 Miles Above Earth
Aboard the International Space Station, an astronaut's life is typically work, exercise, rest, repeat. But what if your chance of having the right stuff for NASA's astronaut corps is, to say the least, minimal?
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Why America's Two Best Fighter Jets Can't Talk To Each Other
With the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II, the U.S. has fielded two of the world's most sophisticated, maneuverable and stealthy fighter jets. They both function as airborne shepherds of America's flock of older combat aircraft
-
Why America's Two Best Fighter Jets Can't Talk To Each Other
With the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II, the U.S. has fielded two of the world's most sophisticated, maneuverable and stealthy fighter jets. They both function as airborne shepherds of America's flock of older combat aircraft
-
America's Fastest Spy Plane Could Be Back - With Top Secret Changes
For years, Lockheed Martin has been developing a successor to one of the fastest aircraft the world has ever seen, the SR-71 Blackbird, the Cold War reconnaissance craft that the U.S. Air Force retired almost three decades ago.
