This illustration shows NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover, the second of the two Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the Red Planet in 2004 to search for signs of past life. NASA/JPL-Caltech It seems easy enough: If we can blast a man to the moon for a round of golf, why do we have...
Nikola Tesla was one of the first to suggest communicating with beings on other planets. In 1899, Tesla thought he had detected a signal from Mars. In the early part of the 20th century, Guglielmo Marconi also thought he had heard signals from Mars. These potential signals were serious enoug...
NASA's Mars rovers HAL: The ship's computer in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" Roomba: The vacuuming robot from iRobot The Robot in the television series "Lost in Space" MINDSTORMS: LEGO's popular robotics kit All of these things are considered robots, at least by some people...
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There's a good chance that humans will travel to Mars before we see the beginning of a new century. How will we communicate with these distant travelers? Scientists, engineers and programmers are already working to develop aninterplanetary Internetthat will connect us to probes and human space ...
“We will need a robotic workforce as humanity pushes towards the stars,” Cyrus said. “Robots will not only build and maintain the infrastructure needed for humans to live on the Moon and Mars, but they will do a lot of the dirty work. They will change the tires on vehicles ...
Once we’ve been on Mars for a while though, that might change. “Long term, after you’ve created a first few initial structures, you’ve had more rovers on the surface, maybe you’ve had astronauts on the surface, then maybe an underground base is the way to go in the future,”...
Strategymeans ‘How do we get there?’ Strategy summarizes how to fulfil the objectives. It is the shortest part of the plan, but arguably, the most important, as it gives direction to all the subsequent tactics. It answers questions including: ...
NASA’s Mars rovers, like Perseverance, drive around the surface of Mars, studying rocks and soil. These smart robots are similar to the droids in Star Wars or the robots from older movies like Forbidden Planet (1956). Sci-fi excited people about space robots, which helped push real scienc...
While astronauts do give informed consent to undertaking space missions, they may not really be “informed,” given that deep-space travel, including extended lunar and Mars missions, has never been carried out and cannot be simulated. Thus, it presents hazards that have never been experienced by...