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Why You May Never Need A Desk Again
10 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Become part of the revolution of breaking the mould of the traditional working environment. This is a call for a new working world order!
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Mark Shuttleworth Heads To Court Over R250 Million
25 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mark Shuttleworth is attempting to fight the South African Reserve Bank for R250 million that he had to pay. Rumour has it he is not happy about being the sole funder of Nkandla…
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They’re Calling This Gaza Space Photo The ‘Saddest Photo’
25 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Distance is usually the necessary factor in gaining perspective on a situation that seems just too massive to cope with. Distance is exactly what astronauts in the International Space Station have and, unsurprisingly, their perspective is radical.
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Brand New Video-Interview With Floating Astronauts In The Space Station [Video]
11 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This interview gives us an amazing insight into what it is actually like to live in space for months at a time. It is pretty amazing to hear from these astronauts what life is actually like living in space. WOW!
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Incredible Hotels And Homes Built Inside Airplanes
10 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Airplanes can be used for way more than purely transporting masses of people, as some people and business owners have shown to make incredible living spaces out of old planes and helicopters.
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Astronomers Report To US Congress – Aliens Are Out there
23 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Astronomers try and convince Congress to give them more money to help discover life on other planets.
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Reporter Reveals Why He Thinks Virgin Galactic May Never Achieve Space Flight
31 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In Branson Behind the Mask, investigative reporter Tom Bower suggests Virgin Galactic may never achieve space flight. In all actuality there is little in Bower’s book that is not already known about Galactic’s dismal record so far. Branson is a sitting duck because he has so frequently over-promised on his bid to introduce so-called space tourism.
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NASA’s 3D Pizza Printer Makes A Decent Pie [VIDEO]
27 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For astronauts, eating a simple pizza is out of the question, relegated to the memory of their good times back on Earth. For obvious reasons, those poor guys up there are stuck with canned and freeze-dried prepackaged foods. But things are looking up. Last year NASA hired a mechanical engineer to build a prototype of a […]
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Meet Kobus Vermeulen – He Could Be The First South African On Mars [INTERVIEW]
24 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“Let’s send Kobus to Mars,” is something you will never hear coming out of NASA mission controller’s mouth. The likelihood that a South African would be chosen to go to space, let alone to form a human colony on Mars is not very strong. But through private and public funding, the Mars One Expedition may do just that.
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Stop Everything: A Mysterious White Rock Has Appeared Near NASA’s Mars Rover
23 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Specifically, the weird rock appeared near the Mars Rover ‘Opportunity’, which has been exploring the red planet since 2004.
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Whoah! Stunning Footage Of Virgin Galactic’s Latest Supersonic Test Flight [VIDEO]
21 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This new SpaceShipTwo rocket-powered test flight video documents the piloted vehicle’s flight on 10 January of this year, which set a company altitude record by reaching 71,000 feet (21,641 meters). SpaceShipTwo also attained a top speed of Mach 1.4, which is roughly 1,225 kph.
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Here’s The Trailer For The New Space Film – ‘Interstellar’ [VIDEO]
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Alfonso Cuaron looks to have set a new mold for space-epic movies after directing ‘Gravity’, as Christopher Nolan looks to produce his very own space-epic called ‘Interstellar’. This time it’s about wormholes.
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Astronauts Tweet Mandela Tribute With Photo Of Cape Town From Space [PIC]
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield paid tribute to Madiba on behalf of NASA, as he and many other astronauts took to twitter to share their condolences, and celebrate his life.
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You Gotta See This NASA Video Of A Comet Cruising Past Earth [VIDEO]
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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Everything You Need To Know About The First Human Colony On Mars [INFOGRAPHIC]
30 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Could we ever truly live on Mars? The mind boggles at the thought of it – partially because so many questions remain unanswered. Will we be able to come back? Will we be able to breathe up there? It just seemed too implausible to truly happen. But doubt no longer, because we have confirmation from this here infographic that a Mars settlement mission is very much on the cards.
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The Future Is Here – Space Travel Could Be A Regular Thing By 2016 [PICS & VIDEO]
28 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well, we say ‘anybody’ – but by that we mean anybody who has R750,000 to spare on a trip to space. Yup, a small Arizona-based business, The Paragon Space Development Corporation, has used some existing technology to create a helium balloon that will take passengers to the edge of space.
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South Africa Is Building A Satellite
23 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa is entering the space realm. The Denel Group is creating a high resolution, Earth observing satellite. The satellite will be called the EO-Sat1, and will be monitored by the South African National Space Agency.
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A Frog Photobombed The NASA Rocket Launch [PIC]
13 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On 6 September, NASA’s rocket Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) took off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At the same time, a frog took one giant leap for amphibiankind and photobombed the whole thing. Take that, rocket ship.
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Save On Transport: NASA Is Growing Lettuce In Space
11 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA has a VEGGIE program, thats short for the Vegetable Production System programme, somehow. After successful attempts to grow zucchinis and other plants in zero gravity under artificial lights, NASA has announced plans to sustain space travellers on the International Space Station with produce grown on the station itself.
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Not Quite Mars: China Is Sending A Rover To The Moon [PIC]
29 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Arriving a little late for the space-race aren’t we China? While NASA is looking at photos of Mars taken by their Curiosity rover, the China National Space Administration has been sending lunar probes into orbit around the moon… And they’ve announced they’re ready to land an unmanned probe on the surface
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NASA Releases Epic Music Video Tribute In Memory Of Neil Armstrong [VIDEO]
26 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Sunday marked the one year anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s death, and NASA released this music video as a tribute to the late astronaut. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon as commander of NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
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Future Funerals: New Service Lets You Blast Ashes Into Space And Track Them In Orbit
12 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Elysium Space is offering the best deal around town to get you or your loved one to space by next year. For a cool R19,594 you could be on your way to space. So what’s the catch? To board the CubeStat heading to the outer limits, you have to be dead.
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Radical 2-Minute Time Lapse Shows Mars Rover’s First Year On Mars [VIDEO]
02 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It has almost been a year since NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet. The WALL-E lookalike landed on Mars on 6 August last year, and since then has been drilling into the martian planet, collecting soil samples and taking some of the best selfies in the universe.
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Stunning Photograph Of Earth Taken From Saturn – 1,4 Billion Kilometres Away [PIC]
24 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If at any stage in your life you decided to star gaze, chances are that this spacecraft photographed you. The Cassini spacecraft was in orbit for the first time in nine years and photographed the Earth from 1,4 billion kilometres away.
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NASA Has Invented An Awesome Zero Gravity Cup For Drinking Coffee In Space [VIDEO]
18 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Becoming an astronaut may have been your childhood dream but can you imagine how difficult it would be to enjoy a fresh cup of coffee in zero gravity?
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Bad Day At The Office: Astronaut’s Helmet Fills With Water While Floating In Space
18 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Tuesday morning, one unlucky person living on the International Space Station was a victim of every astronauts greatest fear. While Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy were on a spacewalk conducting a routine repair of the outskirts of the Station, Parmitano began to panic. It was reported that the Italian astronaut’s helmet began to fill […]
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For Future Reference: This Is How You Wash Your Hair In The Zero Gravity Of Space [VIDEO]
11 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Expedition 36 crew member Karen Nyberg demonstrates how she washes her hair in space. The hair washing process took all of three minutes in the microgravity of the International Space Station (ISS).
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One Day Astronauts Will Be Able To View Mars Like This [VIDEO]
02 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The European Space Agency has given us a look into what it would look like if we had to orbit Mars. Using 600 photographs gleaned by the Visual Monitoring Camera this video has been created to give us a first look at the surroundings of the planet. The VMC captured the images during one complete seven-hour […]
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Obviously China Is Beaming The First Live Lecture From Space To Earth [VIDEO]
21 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is a first: Chinese astronauts delivering a live lecture from the Tiangong 1 space module. The lesson included demonstrations of weightlessness and “the properties of surface tension while in microgravity.” Students were also able to interact with the astronauts and ask questions.
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NASA’s Largest And Most Powerful Rocket Is On Track For A 2017 Test Flight
10 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is NASA’s largest and most powerful rocket to date. And the aim is for it to have its first test flight in 2017. Low-Earth orbit travel will be a thing of the past for NASA: they want the Space Launch System to take them to new heights.
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