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Space
Chris Hadfield can show you your hometown from space
Oct 16, 2014
No, he wouldn't sing for us. We asked.
You could be the life on Mars. Yes, you.
Sep 22, 2014
A Dutch entrepreneur is offering a one-way trip, and reality TV wants a piece too.
Bezos wins a round in the billionaire space race
Sep 18, 2014
The billionaire's space venture Blue Origin announced a new partnership with NASA.
Space tourism: Still for the future, New Mexico learns
Jun 27, 2014
Virgin Galactic hopes to bring space and terrestrial tourists to New Mexico.
NASA's flying saucers hopefully won't be a smash hit
Jun 11, 2014
It's a bird! It's a plane! Actually, it's NASA's flying saucer.
Traveling to space? There's an agent for that
May 2, 2014
Roughly 100 travel agents work as "accredited space agents" to sell seats for Virgin Galactic.
Alien technology, SXSW, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson
by
Ben Johnson
Mar 7, 2014
Marketplace Tech is talking to Neil DeGrasse Tyson
For public good, not for profit.
How does NASA get to Mars? By capturing an asteroid
by
Audrey Quinn
Sep 9, 2013
NASA wants to capture an asteroid and send astronauts to train on it for Mars. Congress is skeptical.
Two new applications for big data
by
Molly Wood
Sep 2, 2013
Leveraging massive amounts of computing power to predict weather and explore the galaxy.
How close are we to a real-life 'Elysium'?
by
Molly Wood
Aug 9, 2013
In anticipation of this weekend's big sci-fi epic, a look at how close we are to building a real-life space colony.