PERMANENT space, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology

A setback for B612: NASA has terminated its unfunded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with the B612 Foundation. Its primary purpose was obtaining NASA technical consulting and agreement for B612 to use NASA tracking facilities for Sentinel after it was launched. In return, B612 would keep NASA informed of ...

This appears to have been renamed the SPACE Act and was eventually passed in May, 2015:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... e-is-here/

Bill text here:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr1508/text

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/560/cpsprodpb/155DC/production/_86161578_4a9f212f-d249-428f-8ac5-dbf07cb4d65b.jpg The European and Russian space agencies are to send a lander to an unexplored area at the Moon's south pole. BBC News has obtained exclusive details of the mission, called Luna 27, which i...

Some great artwork there.

Sadly, only to lower costs of a human Mars mission:

http://news.mit.edu/2015/mars-mission-s ... -moon-1015

Then again, perhaps Musk would be interested. His Mars Colonial Transports will need a lot of fuel.

[quote=""Sam Fraser""] £404,505 pledged of £600,000 goal (as of Dec. 1 2014, "16 days to go") [/quote] Lunar Mission One got fully funded in the end: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lunarmissionone/lunar-mission-one-a-new-lunar-mission-for-everyone/description Another similar private lunar proj...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/A3RDeploy_PlanetaryResources_High-1437408685342.gif Arkyd 3 Reflight (A3R) spacecraft, created by...asteroid-mining firm Planetary Resources, aims to test critical electronic systems and software during its 90-day mission. [The] next demonstrator, called the Arkyd-6 (A6...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/NewSpaceIL-1444232125840.jpg Today, the Google Lunar XPrize (GLXP) announced that Israeli team SpaceIL is the first to sign a verified launch contract that covers the first leg of its journey to the moon. The educational nonprofit’s spacecraft is slated to launch on a S...

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2015/10/17503128990_4c82a99745_z/d5bdbe956.jpg From $250 Million to $6.5 Billion: The Bay Bridge Cost Overrun $250 million (1995) $1 billion (1996) $1.3 billion (1997) $2.6 billion (2001) $5.5 billion (2005) $6.5 billion (Current) ...some expect th...

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia19179-16.gif NASA's Dawn spacecraft, on approach to dwarf planet Ceres, has acquired its latest and closest-yet snapshot of this mysterious world. At a resolution of 8.5 miles (14 kilometers) per pixel, the pictures represent the sharpest ...