Category: Space Exploration

Building Star Trek’s Enterprise Within Our Lifetime: Fantasy Or Possibility?

Posted by SCIFI.radio | May 21, 2012 | Blinded by Science, Movies / Video / Theater, Science Fiction / Fantasy, Space Exploration |

One engineer thinks it might take twenty years with current technology to build a real Starship Enterprise – but he says it’s doable using current technology.

Asteroid Mining Plans Revealed by PLANETARY RESOURCES, INC.

Posted by SCIFI.radio | Apr 24, 2012 | Blinded by Science, Space Exploration |

Planetary Resources, Inc., a partnership between director James Cameron and Google Inc, announced today its plan to mine Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals.

James Cameron & Google Founders to Launch Deep Space Mining Ship “Red Dwarf”

Posted by SCIFI.radio | Apr 22, 2012 | Blinded by Science, Editorials, Space Exploration |

I awoke to a fully stocked mango juice bar, and the news that James Cameron and others were going to be launching a real life asteroid mining company.