"Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: What are you working on?"
Have you tried it yet?
NASA is thinking about jetpacks, tethers, bungees, nets and spiderwebs to allow explorers to float just above the surface of it while attached to a smaller mini-spaceship.
At the moment, there are only a handful of asteroid options and they all have names like 1999AO10 or 2009OS5.
NASA is pursuing its concept for a mini-spaceship exploration vehicle, about the size of a minivan. And it's planning an underwater lab for training, an effort to mimic an asteroid mission's challenges
"There's a lot of things we need to invent and build between now and then."
Now a NASA engineer has come up with a new way to fling satellites through space on mere grams of fuel, tens of times as efficiently as today’s best space probe thrusters.
Instead of using deuterium and tritium as the fuel stocks, the new motor extracts energy from boron fuel.
"And according to his calculations, improvements in short-pulse laser systems could make this form of thruster more than 40 times as efficient as even the best of today's ionic propulsion systems that push spacecraft around. "
Fragmented human genomes could be shipped toward the stars and reconstructed upon their arrival,
to spur the monumental technology advances that would be required for such a feat. So the 100-Year Starship is more like a thought experiment than a construction project.
“The crux, to us, is inspiration of research — not just in solving the physics-based problems. It’s across all of the domains