Author: Prem

NASA, conscious that ISS potentially only has 8 years of useful life left in it, is making the very smart move of helping to accelerate the age of commercial space stations in LEO.

This is a comprehensive article, but the long & short of it is that NASA has put out an RFI for nascent commercial space station operators to berth a full-sized module at the port currently occupied by the +Bigelow Aerospace BEAM experimental module.

This will be a valuable bridging and learning experience for the winning bid, as they will have to build and launch an actual space station module, but NASA will feed & water it once it's attached to the station.

I'll watch this space with interest in the coming years.

In December, European ministers are expected to vote on a proposal to extend the European Space Agency’s participation in the International Space Station through 2024. If they decide to do so—and the leadership of ESA as well as some European national space agencies expect just that—ESA will be …

+McLaren Your "waterproof" jacket sucks! I got completely soaked through within 5 minutes. #YouHadOneJob

Looking forward to seeing some more classic Beemer designs on the track again.

BMW will compete in Formula E, WEC but no Formula 1 return in the future

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A well thought out article that examines some possible directions that driverless vehicles could take on the very near future.

Within ten years, roads will be full of…

Nothing changes.

The Commons votes by 472 votes to 117 to renew the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons programme, with 140 Labour MPs going against Jeremy Corbyn to support the government.

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Aurelia is a contemporary JavaScript framework that does not the visibility that it deserves. The media is currently saturated with Angular 2 and React related articles. This June the creator of Aurelia, Rob Eisenberg discussed a number of front end framework articles at a conference in Norway.

The future is indeed looking bright.

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The north pole of #Saturn seen in colorful motion by our Cassini mission: http://go.nasa.gov/29HeY7e