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SpaceX's Reusable Rockets, Uber's First Self-Driving Car, and Other Amazing Images of the Week

Plus, a Brand New Star Trek Logo

Josh Hrala and Claire Maldarelli

May 20, 2016

SpaceX has successfully landed three separate rockets on Earth. Every time they do so, they place these boosts inside Hangar 39A at Cape Canaveral, Florida. It looks like they will need a bigger hangar soon if they keep this up, but that's the least of their worries. The ability to reuse rockets will dramatically cut the cost needed to get supplies and people to space, especially to the International Space Station. The next step is for SpaceX to actually refurbish one of these previously used rockets and make sure they can fly again.SpaceX

Mars500 Crew — The six 'astronauts' pictured above spent a remarkable 520 days inside a confined space together to study how a trip to Mars would play out. The experiment, which ended in 2011, has been the subject of countless studies that aim to figure out how spending so much time in a very small space with five other people affects astronauts' mentally. One of the newer studies, published in Acta Astronautica, sat down with the team so they could share their thoughts on all that time together. You can read some of the most exciting bits here.ESA

Android Wear 2.0 — This is Android's new wearable that allows users to leave their phones at home while running or walking around. Besides the freedom of roaming without a phone, the watch's face is customizable; users can even draft messages with their own handwriting. Will this compete with the Apple Watch? Maybe. Only time will tell, but it definitely looks more like a watch and less like an iPod Nano strapped to your arm.YouTube

NOAA April Map — NOAA just released a new map showing the world's temperature in April. While it may not look like a big deal, this is the 12th consecutive month (also known as a year) that the world has experienced record-breaking high temperatures across the board because, you know, climate change. In the report, researchers say that April's temperature this year was 1.98°F higher than average, which isn't great news for the environment.NCD/NOAA

Meet the New Star Trek Logo

Star Trek will return to TV (sorta) in 2017. The show will be run by Bryan Fuller of Hannibal fame and will feature weekly episodes on CBS' All Access streaming platform, which will cost viewers $5.99 a month. Will this get CBS into the streaming game? Will the show cause fans everywhere to break out into happy tears or sad tears? These are the questions that everyone wants to know. Sadly, CBS has been pretty tight-lipped about the whole thing. The one thing we do know for certain is that it has a new logo!CBS