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Take a tour of Chrysalis, a massive, cylindrical spacecraft designed for the Project Hyperion Design Competition.
Engineers have conceptualized Chrysalis, a rotating spacecraft designed for interstellar travel to Alpha Centauri. This ambitious project, winner of the Project Hyperion Design Competition, envisions ...
With the restraints placed upon them by physics, sci-fi writers have imagined "generational ships" for decades. The idea is pretty simple: creating a ship that will sustain a small society of humans ...
A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry 2,400 passengers to ...
The sci-fi-like project won the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical ...
Four centuries from launch, a vast spacecraft could deliver thousands of people to a world orbiting the nearest star. The ...
The design for a 36 mile long spacecraft, called Chrysalis, includes libraries, tropical forests and structural manufacturing ...
There, over a thousand passengers who have been living in the airborne habitat (the descendants of a crew that launched from ...
The National Air and Space Museum has opened five more of its renovated galleries, including two showcasing space artifacts.
A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology "Testing this tech will be helpful for navigation in contested environments." ...
Space agencies looking to set up long-term bases on the Moon need sustainable ways to feed astronauts. The approaches they are testing could also help to tackle challenges on Earth.
The Space Force's secretive space plane, the X-37, is headed back to the launch pad. Here's what we know.