[Link] An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred

Read: 25/11/2021 arstechnica.com

A short update on the projected launch date of the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope came out of NASA on Monday, and it wasn't exactly a heart-warming missive.

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[Link] NASA Plans to Put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Within a Decade

Read: 22/11/2021 www.vice.com

The agency put out a request for proposals for a lunar nuclear power plant that can power surface exploration. If you’ve been sitting on a creative idea for how to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon, NASA and the Department of Energy want you.

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[Link] NASA unveils asteroid-fighting spacecraft as it prepares for Armageddon-style mission test

Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

The spacecraft will be launched later this month as part of the space agency's first planetary defence test mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). It will direct itself at an asteroid while traveling at a speed of about 24,000 kilometres per hour.

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[Link] Jeff Bezos Reveals Plans to Build a Space Station Called 'Orbital Reef'

Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com

Jeff Bezos has turned his wealth from Amazon into a play for space. He's already gone to the edge of space in one of his own Blue Origin rockets and broken the record for sending the oldest person ever into space, twice.

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[Link] Retrotechtacular: Amiga Pips The PC For Mission-Critical Computing At NASA

Read: 17/8/2021 hackaday.com

In 1986, a group of NASA engineers faced a difficult choice in solving their data processing woes: continue tolerating the poor performance of PC architecture, or pony up the cash for exotic workstations.

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