White House says NASA’S NEXT BIG MISSION is capturing an asteroid. Aiiiiiiight.

April 6th, 2013 by Caffeine Powered

Capture that shiiit.

Watch out, asteroids. Your days of romping about the space neighborhood with unfettered access shall soon be over. Uncle Sam is aiming NASA at its next goal, and it is to capture an asteroid. It ain’t exactly Mars, but….I don’t know. Yay?

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NASA Reveals The ORION SPACE CAPSULE. The Sumbitch May Take Us To Mars

July 5th, 2012 by Caffeine Powered

NASA has pulled the tarp away covering their new passenger-powered space shuttle thingy sumbitch. Meet the Orion Space Capsule.

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NASA: VOYAGER 1 Has Almost Left Our Solar System. Hell Yeah.

June 15th, 2012 by Caffeine Powered

Voyager 1 has been working its way out of our solar system for a long, long, long goddamn time. If calculations by astronomical wizards are correct, it is pretty much there.

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NASA Develops Vacuum Tube Prototype for SPACE COMPUTERS. Rad Res++

May 25th, 2012 by Caffeine Powered

Something I’ve never really thought of: how computers would stand up to the unkind blasts of radiation in space. Thankfully there are smarter people out there, who can think of space without inevitably diverging into “like, we’re all from the Big Bang, mannn” like me.

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