Elon Musk boasts he will launch a squad of Optimus humanoid robots to Mars aboard his Starship super-capsules, but a leading U.S. robotics scholar predicts their quick demise (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images) CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images While SpaceX founder Elon Musk has pledged to despatch a crew of Optimus…
NASA’s ex-Administrator told Congress the U.S. is in danger of losing the new space race to the Moon due to SpaceX’s cascading delays in perfecting its Starship lunar lander. (Photo by Loren Elliott/Getty Images) Getty Images Even as a backlash to SpaceX’s hold-ups in perfecting its Starship lunar lander builds across the U.S. Congress, Elon…
Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) Houston Chronicle via Getty Images With its expanding alliance with SpaceX, the Italian Space Agency is set to help chart and safeguard future astronaut flights to Mars…
Astronauts train to scale a Mars volcano at an analogue site in France. Lava tubes that crisscross the Martian surface might provide sanctuaries for the first human explorers on the Red Planet. (Photo by Francis DEMANGE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images As SpaceX races to test and perfect the Starship super-capsules slated to…
Arthur Clarke, screenwriter for the blockbuster film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” has been resurrected as an advanced OpenAI chatbot to help map out the transformation of Mars into a new Eden for humanity and to recount their spacefaring odysseys (Photo by Movie Poster Image Art/Getty Images) Getty Images To speed up their masterplan to recreate…