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The Dragon spacecraft while being prepared for the CRS-2 mission (Photo NASA/Kim Shiflett)

Yesterday’s launch of the Falcon 9 rocket to send the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station for the CRS-2 (Cargo Resupply Service 2) mission was perfect. However, after entering into orbit, Dragon had problems that endangered its mission. Thanks to the hard work of NASA and SpaceX engineers, now it seems that the only consequence will be a delay in its arrival to the Station.

Artistic concept of the Inspiration Mars Foundation starship that should carry astronauts to Mars (Image courtesy Inspiration Mars Foundation)

Yesterday, at a press conference, millionaire Dennis Tito officially announced the project of its Inspiration Mars Foundation to send two astronauts on a journey to Mars and back. According to his intentions, the mission is supposed to start in early 2018 to take advantage of the closeness between the Earth and Mars and last 501 days.

A Heritage of Stars by Clifford D. Simak

The novel “A Heritage of Stars” by Clifford D. Simak was published for the first time in 1977.

Thomas Cushing wants to discover the secrets of humanity’s technological past. Studying at the university, he found a record dating back a thousand years that reports stories that were already centuries old concerning the total destruction of technology. The chronicle also reports the story, maybe just a legend, concerning the place of going to the stars, where human beings were leaving to reach distant worlds.

LG has reached an agreement with Hewlett-Packard for the acquisition of the webOS operating system for an amount of money that hasn’t been disclosed. LG will use webOS in its new line of Smart TVs and will assume stewardship of the projects Open webOS and Enyo, the cross-platform JavaScript framework used to write applications that work on different mobile devices and browsers.