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NASA's New Ride: Roomy, reliable and affordable, the Crew Exploration Vehicle will be a Toyota Camry for space
NASA plans to return astronauts to the Moon in 2018 by using two different rockets to put the crew and spacecraft in orbit. NASA's plans, the new spacecraft, and future plans for space exploration are discussed.
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NASA's Odyssey: To reach Mars, NASA will need to navigate a treacherous landscape of detours and dead ends
With the space shuttle grounded until March at the earliest and probably much longer than that, and a budget that is barely keeping pace with inflation, NASA has a difficult road ahead. At each turn, NASA and its contractors must perform a Herculean task, beat the competition, and hope for a bit of luck. Weed discusses a possible timeline for NASA.
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Earth's Evil Twin: This month Europe sends the first craft in 16 years to Venus, our temperamental neighbor next door
On Oct 26, a Soyuz rocket will blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, catapulting a VW Bug-size spacecraft toward Venus. If all goes as planned, Venus Express, which was built by the European Space Agency, will pull into orbit around the cloud-covered planet on Apr 4, 2006, becoming its first visitor since 1990.
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Astronomy's Next Big Things: these 10 telescopes won't just revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos, they'll change everything we think a telescope can be
Weed discusses 10 telescopes that could be pivotal in future astronomy. A survey of the most important and powerful instruments available in science is presented.
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Beetle wings
Weed features 13-year-old Kai Rogers' Volkswagen Beetle with a hot-rod wing on the back, his grandfather Ernest Rogers' latest experiment with fuel efficiency-using the least amount of gas to go the greatest number of miles. Accounts detailing how aerodynamics, the study of the motion of gases and the movement of objects through the air, can save energy and money are also presented.
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Disturbing! Disgusting! Discombobulating! It's...The Worst: Jobs In Science: The Sequel
Weed presents Popular Science's second annual countdown of the worst jobs in science. The number one worst job is being an anal-wart researcher.
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Catch Some Rays: Will NASA's exotic shipment from space land safely?
For the past three years NASA's robotic Genesis spacecraft has been in orbit 930,000 miles from Earth, catching billions of atoms and ions from solar wind. Hollywood stunt pilots will help land this special cargo.
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Brain Pacemaker: Implantable electroshock therapy eases depression
Weed discusses an implantable electroshock therapy device that can ease depression. The device uses vagus nerve stimulation, which is targeted at just one part of the brain and uses very low voltage.
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Mercury Or Bust: Messenger's wild and risky ride to the innermost planet
Weed discusses NASA's Messenger, an orbiter, and its travel to investigate Mercury. Slipping a probe into Mercury's orbit is a dicey and technologically challenging feat.
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