Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact
| NASA issues call for visionary advanced technology concepts | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | January 9, 2012 |
| NASA's Space Technology Program is looking for far-out ideas, and is open to proposals from anyone and everyone... | |
| NASA announces launch date and milestones for SpaceX flight | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | December 9, 2011 |
| NASA sets launch date for commercial space flight to the International Space Station... | |
| NASA's Voyager hits new region at solar system edge | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | December 5, 2011 |
| As the 34-year-old Voyager spacecraft continue to flee the solar system, they're discovering the characteristics of space between the stars... | |
| New Horizons Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Approach Pluto | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | December 2, 2011 |
 At a range of nearly 1 billion miles (10.5 AUs), NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now the closest ever to approach Pluto, and it continues to near the dwarf planet every moment...
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| NASA probe data show evidence of liquid water on icy Europa | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | November 17, 2011 |
 Data from the Galileo mission seems to show a lot of liquid water on Europa...
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| Virgin Galactic's Gateway to Space terminal is dedicated by Sir Richard Branson and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | October 17, 2011 |
| Sir Richard Branson and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez dedicate the Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space and New Science and Education Customers to Bring Benefits of Space Access to Students and Researchers... | |
| NASA seeks undergraduates to fly research in microgravity | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | September 12, 2011 |
| Applications are due soon for student-driven experiments to fly aboard micro-gravity aircraft next summer... | |
| NASA gives public new internet tool to explore the solar system | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | September 2, 2011 |
| "Eyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time... | |
| Tor Books and NASA sign partnership agreement | |
| News > Publishers | August 22, 2011 |
| NASA has reached an 'innovative partnership' agreement with Tor-Forge Books to develop and publish a series of science-fiction-themed books... | |
| End of the Space Shuttle era | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | June 29, 2011 |
 Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch on the program's final flight on 8 July...
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| Space Shuttles to be grounded in California, Florida, New York, and Washington DC | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | April 12, 2011 |
 NASA has announced the final grounding places for the three remaining Space Shuttle orbiters, as well as a move for the flight-test vehicle Enterprise...
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| Laser weapons: coming soon to a naval vessel near you? | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | April 11, 2011 |
| The US Navy has successfully tested a high energy laser weapon at sea... | |
| Fractal Antenna Systems claims the first working invisibility cloak | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | December 24, 2010 |
| Massachusetts antenna design firm Fractal Antenna Systems has developed a practical invisibility cloak that works in some electromagnetic frequencies... | |
| Four Northwestern scientists to discuss Mutants, Androids, and Cyborgs | |
| News > Performances & Podcasts | October 6, 2010 |
| Mutants, Androids, and Cyborgs: The Science of Pop Culture Films will bring together four neruoscientists from Northwestern University to see what science of tomorrow we can look forward to by viewing the films of today... | |
| Mars 500 about to send 6 men on simulated Mars mission | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | June 2, 2010 |
 The Mars 500 project, beginning tomorrow, will lock six men into a simulated spaceship for more than 500 days to simulate a mission to Mars and see how they cope...
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| Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise's first (captive) flight | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | March 22, 2010 |
  The first captive-carry test flight of Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise took place today. The spaceship is the first to be built to fly paying tourists into space...
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| Branson and Rutan unveil SpaceShipTwo | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | December 7, 2009 |
 Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan are unveiling SpaceShipTwo, the first commercial spaceship that will take tourists into space...
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| NASA reports LCROSS has discovered water on the Moon | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | November 13, 2009 |
| Results of the planned crash into the lunar surface last month have been revealed: there is indeed water in the permanently shadowed crater at the Moon's south pole... | |
| Win a piece of the Moon from New Scientist | |
| News > Contests | June 15, 2009 |
 New Scientist's current competition is offering a piece of lunar meteorite as the prize...
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| Heinlein Prize Trust sending medical experiment into space | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | April 23, 2009 |
 The Heinlein Prize Trust has awarded a four-and-a-half day flight into orbit to a medical experiment from the University of Texas, to investigate the effects of microgravity on diffusion of...
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| Charles Simonyi becomes first repeat space tourist | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | March 26, 2009 |
 US software engineer Charles Simonyi, who first flew as a space tourist two years ago, today launched on a two-week flight to the International Space Station, becoming the first tourist to fly into space twice...
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| Satellites crash in orbit | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | February 12, 2009 |
| A dead Russian communications satellite and a live Iridium satellite crashed into each other at an altitude of nearly 500 miles... | |
| Students: name NASA's newest lunar housing facility | |
| News > Contests | October 23, 2008 |
 NASA is asking students to help name their newest design, an inflatable habitat that may house astronauts on the Moon...
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| New Scientist polling for best sf films/books; your chance to win them | |
| News > Contests | October 6, 2008 |
| New Scientist magazine will devote an issue to the future of science fiction, and give three readers the three best sf films and books. After voting in their poll, tell us here if you think science fiction really is dying out. | |
| Chinese spacewalk, listen to the astronauts, and send your name into space | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | September 26, 2008 |
| Three space news stories: China has launched its third manned mission, intending to walk in space; NASA has opened up the phone lines to listen in on the ISS; and NASA's Glory satellite... | |
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