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Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors Hires Aston Martin’s Chief Engineer of Vehicle Engineering

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05/06/13 – Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has hired Aston Martin’s Chief Engineer of Vehicle Engineering, Chris Porritt, to be its Vice President of Vehicle Engineering. Chris is a world-class leader and automotive engineer who established Aston Martin’s Vehicle Engineering team from the ground...

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Competition aims to make space design open and collaborative, with legendary inventor Dean Kamen, and judges from NASA, MIT and TED selecting three winners

Today DIYROCKETS and Sunglass are announcing a partnership to launch the world’s first open source competition to create 3D printed rocket engines through...

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Curiosity To Sleep While Solar Storm Heads Toward Mars

Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA The Sun unleashed a solar storm directed at Mars on Wednesday. While the Mini Cooper sized rover is designed to handle harsh conditions...

Large Hadron Collider Shutting Down For Two Years

The Large Hadron Collider  has given physicists a large quantity of data since the first run in 2009. The LHC is in need of a little vacation. “Long...

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South Korea launches first civilian rocket amid tensions with North

South Korea launched its first space rocket carrying a science satellite on Wednesday. It was South Korea’s third attempt to launch a civilian...

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New Tesla Charging Stations are Opening on the East Coast of US

Elon Musk’s Tesla fast charging stations have officially hit the East Coat in Connecticut and Delaware. California isn’t the only place that...

Russia upgrading booster rocket for NASA manned missions

Russia is modernizing a booster which U.S. space agency NASA would use for manned flights, a Russian rocket engine manufacturer said Wednesday. “We are adjusting the RD-180 engine for manned missions,” Executive Director of NPO Energomash company Vladimir Solntsev told reporters, adding the adaptation work started in early 2012. The RD-180 engine, which was...

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Worlds First Space Time Crystal Proposed

Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe. This is the “wow” factor behind a device known as...

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The First Laptop in Space, the GRiD 1101

The first laptop in space was designed by a man named Bill Moggridge who passed away September 8th, 2012 at the age of 69 years old.  Bill won the Prince...

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