NASA
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President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, and the country's space agency met his challenge with five months to go. However, in 1971, NASA sent a remarkable piece of equipment into space with astronauts—the Lunar Rover—which was actually designed and built by General Motors. Now, 46 years later, we can compare GM's work on the all-electric Lunar Rover to that on its first long-range, affordable electric car, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV. DON'T MISS: Electric-car road trip: lessons learned in Chevy Bolt EV over 1,300 miles...
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Why NASA thinks the Tesla Autopilot is a bad idea
NASA research may be relevant to the Tesla Autopilot debate.
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Hybrid Airplane Engine? NASA Says It's Making Progress On One
NASA researchers are experimenting with hybrid aircraft.
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Experimental Electric Wing: Lower-Carbon Airplane Research
NASA is testing a propulsion concept that uses wing-mounted electric motors.
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Electric Cars Cut Greenhouse Gases Even More Than Expected, NASA Says
A trial program with electric cars at the Kennedy Space Center is going better than expected, cutting greenhouse gas emissions in company vehicles. In fact, the center's sustainability office suggests the results are 10 times better than those expected--electric cars are making a real impact...
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NASA Ready To Show Off Algae Biofuel Research Project
NASA has developed a system that captures carbon dioxide and helps to prevent pollution from wastewater while creating renewable algae biofuel, fertilizer and possibly animal feed, too. NASA calls its system OMEGA, for Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae, self-contained bags of...
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