The winners-six to 10 of them-will together get a total of $1 million of sweet NASA cash and six months to design a smallsat that could get astrophysical. It “will swoop to within 4 million miles of the Sun’s surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it,” Nasa says on the probe’s mission page. You can simulate it, sure, but the most valuable lessons are learned during actual attempts. “You can do chemical propulsion to Mars, but it’s really hard,” says Emrich. But it’s a metaphor, too, for Colorado itself, which ranks first in the country for aerospace jobs per capita. You know the kind of sci-fi movie where you’re staring at the screen in disbelief not because of the amazement of how far special effects have come, but because some bonehead who’s apparently never watched a movie is getting a little too comfortable with a seemingly harmless specimen from an alien world, and you just know it’s about to sprout some gnarly teeth-or similar dangerous implements-and gnaw some faces off?

“I see it as kind of a Wright brothers moment on another planet,” says Bob Balaram, the chief engineer for the Mars helicopter project at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Sending humans to Mars involves deep space missions that could last months, but shipping material there is costly; the price of transporting 1kg on Earth increases by a factor of 100 on a Martian mission. Emrich has been researching nuclear propulsion since the early ’90s, but his work has taken on a sense of urgency as the Trump administration pushes Nasa to put boots on the moon ASAP in preparation for a journey to Mars. For only the second time in a year, Nasa has captured an incredible view of the moon as it moved across the sunlit side of Earth. The illustrations were created by Nasa’s team in the 70s to explore what Earth-orbit-based living might look like, if technological progress continued and resource extraction from mining the Moon or nearby asteroids became a reality. Perhaps one day, these mechanical marvels will be doing much the same in the murky depths of those watery alien moons – although there are still plenty of logistical and technical obstacles to overcome before any such mission becomes a reality.

Today, “Hallelujah” is one of the most-performed rock songs in history. You can’t throw a rock in the Front Range without hitting a prime contractor. Aerojet Rocketdyne, the contractor carrying out much of the RS-25 engine work, will continue to work with Nasa at Stennis to carry out further engine tests. For the last decade, Emrich and a team of engineers have been simulating the extreme conditions inside a nuclear rocket engine at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Nasa is a major player in space science, so when a team from the agency this week presents evidence that “impossible” microwave thrusters seem to work, something strange is definitely going on. With iTech, NASA is hoping to find outsiders who-with their fast commercial timelines-can build their product into something the agency needs. “We find no evidence to suggest that UAP are extraterrestrial in origin,” he said. She and 14 other researchers are pitching diverse terrestrial technologies that they hope to level up to space. Politics aside, the first space tourist said he was amazed that his trip had proved so comfortable. Nasa has captured the early flash of an exploding star in visible light for the first time.

Additionally, NASA’s live stream often features commentary from experts who explain various aspects of ongoing missions or discoveries being made in real time. The soundbar hinge ties in perfectly with the 14-inch display options for those who enjoy watching TV and movies on their laptop. Scientists, for instance, could use smallsats to do time-domain astronomy: watching for bursts and flares and flashes and pulses and all the other kinds of light-waves that appear and then vanish. If you’re wondering how Hybrid Apps are built with NativeScript look like, then well, they’re simple mobile applications that are built with the help of NativeScript and they are entirely Native Applications as well. They can’t do things like, say, develop all the robots future-NASA might need. Along with the deeply complex logistics of sending a mission to the gas giants, it is safe to say that sending robots like these diving into Europa or Enceladus will remain a dream for some time. We deliver inspiring commercial design and fitouts, on time and on budget. The 50th anniversary of NASA’s greatest triumph is a time to reflect. Astronomers could also use the instruments to do surveys-to look at the whole sky in one wavelength band, for example-or to give brighter or nearby objects the attention that other telescopes may lavish on more distant and foreign bodies.