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Springtime at Mars' South Pole. ESA/Mars Express. The NASA Mars Sample Return (MSR) program is in jeopardy. Congress has rejected the...

Our 2023 Phase I concept centered around the use of modified clover plants to harvest water out of the air, enabling large-scale lunar...

James Vaughan Photo https://www.jamesvaughanphoto.com/ Anyone who has ever flown on a rainy day is familiar with the way raindrops dance on the windows of an airplane in flight. In fact, boundary layer effects mean that even when flying at 500 miles an hour, liquid slides over the skin of an airplane at a leisurely pace. What if the skin of an airplane could “drink” in this rainwater and analyze it with science instruments? What if that rain was made of methane, and from ano

Read the 3-page white paper here. The ACTION (Advanced Capture and Transport Integrated deOrbiting Nanosat) mission concept is a novel...

James Vaughan Photo https://www.jamesvaughanphoto.com/ Deep drilling is one of the single-most important technologies of 21st century...

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