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    The Space Suit Makers

    When they first met in 2007, Ted Southern and Nik Moiseev came from two very different worlds. They didn't imagine they'd eventually be in business designing space couture in a modest studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Full story

    2013 Feb 12 Motherboard Tech
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    Valley of the UFOs

    We ventured to Hooper, Colorado (population: 105) to investigate some of the stranger things that have gone down there—from shooting stars to strange weather patterns to aliens descending to Earth in extraterrestrial space pods. Full story

    2013 Jan 29 Motherboard Tech
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    The Space Composer

    As we started planning the second season of our 'Spaced Out' series, we wanted to feature non-scientists thinking about the future of space. Enter composer Robert Alexander, who is helping NASA make new discoveries by turning raw data into music through a process called Data Soni… Full story

    2013 Jan 16 Motherboard Tech
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    Open Source Outer Space

    Anyone with enough brains and balls can build their own rocket and fly it to space. Or at least that’s what the nonprofit, open-source space-project Copenhagen Suborbitals wants the world to realize. They're determined to create the first homemade, manned spacecraft to go into su… Full story

    2012 Dec 18 Motherboard Tech
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    The Satellite Hunter

    Thierry Legault is not your average amateur astronomer. He’s a renowned astrophotographer, painstakingly chronicling the orbits of planets, distant galaxies, spaceships, and—to the chagrin of the intelligence community—the spy satellites we’re not supposed to see. Full story

    2012 Nov 27 Motherboard Tech
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    Spaced Out: The Artstronaut

    Nicholas Forker is a maestro of the ballpoint pen. One day I was walking by the half-way open door of his art studio in Bushwick and noticed astronauts on the wall. Drawings and ink paintings of astronauts in a variety of mundane positions – sitting on the couch, batting up on a… Full story

    2012 Jul 13 Hugo Perez Tech
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    Spaced Out: Making Mars with Tom Sachs

    Artist Tom Sachs has recreated an entire four-week mission to Mars with little more than wood, glue and household objects. Working with Nasa and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, his studio built go-kart rovers, a model rocket, and a giant lunar excursion module to turn the fabled P… Full story

    2012 Jun 13 Alex Pasternack Tech
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