by Michael Belfiore | Apr 29, 2011 | Blog
I captured this video clip this week at Carnegie Mellon University, home of the Astrobotic Google Lunar X PRIZE team in Pittsburgh. Red Rover is the name of the team’s moon-robot-in-development. Its namesake, CMU robotics professor and Field Robotics Center...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 22, 2011 | Blog
When the Shuttle retires in just a couple of months, NASA will be forced to bum rides off its former arch rival, the Russian Space Agency, to the tune of $63 million a seat. That’s because the ship that was to replace the Shuttle has gotten itself billions of...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog
With Elon Musk’s announcement this week that his company, SpaceX, is developing the world’s most powerful rocket, a little-acknowledged fact has become all the more clear: SpaceX IS the US manned space program. Yes, naysayers like Senator Shelby of Alabama...
