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NASA Pondering $1.5 Million Stratospheric Airship Competition

Posted by Soulskill on from the to-boldly-go-where-skydivers-have-gone-before dept.

coondoggie writes: NASA this week said it was contemplating a public competition to build airships capable of reaching the stratosphere where they could remain for a period of time gathering astronomical data or watching environmental changes on the ground. Airship Challenge's goals (PDF) include: a minimum altitude of 20km, maintained for 20 hours; successful return of payload data as well as cargo up to 20kg; and a demonstration of the airship's scalability for longer/larger missions.

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  1. Re:yeah right by sexconker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NASA really needs to stop being a fucking global warming shill organization and get back to putting people into space (fucking space, not the upper atmosphere).