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To The Moon And Back: White House Asks For Big Increase In NASA Budget
Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 11:16am | 472The White House is asking for a 12% increase in the budget for NASA as the space agency continues to push its ambitious Artemis program to send people back to the moon and prepare for human exploration of Mars. The budget proposal requests $25.246 billion, an increase of more than $2.5 billion. The...
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'It's A Huge Thing': Avicanna Receives Unique Canadian Cannabinoid Research License
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 1:45pm | 566Health Canada has granted biopharmaceutical researcher and cannabis producer Avicanna Inc (TSX: AVCN) with a research license that will allow the company to perform research and intellectual property development on cannabinoids at its facility in the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. The...
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OK, Here's The Plan: Elon Musk Lays Out Strategy For Mars Colony, International Rocket Travel
Friday, September 29, 2017 - 8:47am | 752If shooting through The Boring Company’s underground tunnels isn’t for you, Elon Musk has another proposition: he’ll rocket you to your destination. The transit visionary behind SpaceX, Boring and Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) unveiled astronomical goals for international travel and...
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Buzz Aldrin Wants Earthlings To Get Busy And Go To Mars, Joining The Likes Of Jeff Bezos And Elon Musk
Monday, July 17, 2017 - 3:44pm | 633Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, has his sights set on Mars. At age 87, he may not be around to see it, but he does believe a human will make it to the Red Planet by 2040. "I like to think of myself as an innovative futurist," Aldrin told a gathering...
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The Futurist Scorecard: A Look At (Almost) Everything That Interests Elon Musk Besides Building Cars
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 11:52am | 966Rocket ships, brain chips, music streaming, autonomous driving, solar power, underground roads with elevators — it might be easier to list all the stuff that doesn’t capture Elon Musk’s active imagination. Best known as a car mogul, the founder and CEO of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA)...
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All You Need To Know About #NationalCandyDay
Saturday, November 5, 2016 - 6:44pm | 779One would assume Halloween is enough of a "candy day" for the United States to not need another dedicated day in this fall season. However, this does not seem to be the case. Quite the opposite, November 4 – just a few days after All Hallows' Eve — is the #...
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To Infinity And Beyond
Friday, September 30, 2016 - 8:00am | 315Turns out Buzz Lightyear might gain some company in space. Less than a month after his company's failed Falcon 9 mission, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) revealed SpaceX's plans to colonize Mars in the near future. Musk detailed his strategy at the International...
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Elon Musk Explains How He Plans To Colonize Mars With 1 Million People
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 3:17pm | 359Elon Musk has been obsessed with space travel for a long time. The founder of SpaceX recently took his outer space ambitions a step further: he wants to colonize Mars with a million people within a decade. On Tuesday, Musk gave a keynote talk at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in...
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Where Exactly Do The Top 1% Live?
Friday, July 8, 2016 - 12:45pm | 259Many people are fascinated with the lifestyle of the rich and famous, commonly referred to as the "1 percent" crowd. While it might be correct in concluding that the country's wealthiest individuals live in New York City, Los Angeles and Miami, the county with the highest average income of the top...
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No More M&Ms In Your McFlurry?
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 3:46pm | 198McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD)'s famous McFlurrys might be missing a key ingredient soon. "An industry source familiar with Mars' thinking said the company has had talks with the world's largest fast-food chain and other partners about its candies' inclusion in...
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These Candy Companies Aren't Scared By Halloween
Monday, November 2, 2015 - 4:17pm | 321In a recent video, CNBC took a look at "America’s most popular Halloween candy." The National Confectioners Association predicted that $2.6 billion dollars would be spent in candy for Halloween in 2015. This translates to roughly $8 for every U.S. citizen. Most of it was...
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NASA Reveals Plans For Life On Mars
Friday, October 9, 2015 - 12:22pm | 368A recent report that NASA found liquid water flowing on Mars has caused curiosity to resurface regarding when astronauts might be able to make longer-term journeys to the Red Planet. This week, NASA answered questions about whether long-term missions to Mars are feasible by outlining its plans to...
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3D Printers Take On Mars
Monday, April 13, 2015 - 11:10am | 3433D printing technology has been gaining traction over the past few years as the devices are improved and made available to industrial firms. However, while most analysts agree that mainstream use of 3D printing is still years away, NASA says it may soon be using the technology light years away...
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4 Ways Elon Musk Blew Our Minds Tuesday Night
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 8:48am | 260Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) was at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit Tuesday night, and Benzinga was in attendance. Here are four things he said that -- literally -- blew our minds. 1. "I want to enable large numbers of people to go to Mars." Musk focused on Mars...
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United States And India Join Forces For Future Trips To Mars
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 12:09pm | 287Hot off the the heels of two separate and successful trips to Mars, the space agencies of India and the United States announced a joint effort to travel to the red planet. What does this mean for investors of companies such as Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) and The Boeing Company (NYSE...