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12.02.09

Astronauts Want a Next-Gen Ride 10 Times Safer Than the Shuttle

Astronauts say the next crew launch vehicle should have disaster odds of just 1 in 1,000

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 11.30.2009 at 4:34 pm 11 Comments

Spaceflight continues to represent one of the more extreme and hazardous undertakings for humans, even if it's just about getting off the ground. But the men and women of NASA's astronaut corps say that the U.S. space agency can improve on the odds that faced the doomed shuttle crews of Challenger and Columbia.

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Robot Subs in Space

PopSci innovator Bill Stone plans to drop one of the world´s most advanced underwater robots into the deepest hole on Earth. If all goes well, this thing just might help get him to the moon

By James Vlahos Posted 02.01.2007 at 2:00 am 2 Comments

NASA hopes to someday use a robot like Bill Stone's DepthX to explore Europa, a frozen moon of Jupiter and one of the most probably places in our solar system to support life.

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