Tag: SpaceFest
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Moon Direct: Mars maverick lays out his low-cost plan to set up lunar bases
Mars Society President Robert Zubrin provides a guided tour of future space missions during a talk at the University of Washington. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) For decades, rocket scientist Robert Zubrin has been a voice crying in the Martian wilderness. But now the president of the Mars Society is pleading the case for a…
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Sisterhood is powerful when it comes to Seattle’s commercial space scene
SpaceX’s Aarti Matthews, Blue Origin’s Erika Wagner and Vulcan Aerospace’s Cassie Lee field questions during an “Off-Planet Inc.” panel at the Museum of Flight’s SpaceFest. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) The billionaires who run Blue Origin and SpaceX – Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk – may be locked in an outer-space rivalry, but the engineers who get…
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Museum of Flight lets you walk on Mars in virtual reality for SpaceFest
Aerospace and science editor Alan Boyle, explores NASA’s Curiosity rover and its surroundings on Mars in virtual reality at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. (GeekWire photo by Kevin Lisota) I’ve been to Mars to kick the tires on NASA’s Curiosity rover – and you can take that trip as well. Not in reality, of course, but in…
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Symphonic SpaceFest: ‘Origins’ concert sets the Big Bang and astrobiology to music
An artist’s conception shows two “branes” colliding in multidimensional space, creating the Big Bang that gave rise to our own universe 13.8 billion years ago. (Animation by Deep Sky Studios) The Big Bang never looked, or sounded, so good: The piece de resistance for this week’s SpaceFest in Seattle is a symphonic review of 13.8…