One of the best features of the space program has always been astronaut photography, and this group of photographs show some of the best images of Earth’s skies, but with a twist. These shots (after the shuttle launch images) were all taken from above - way above. It’s a cool perspective and a great reminder [...]
NASA “shares a story that turns back the clock 36 years to reveal the “key roll of duct tape in the Apollo program.” You have GOT to be creative with many things when you’re standing on the moon. Excellent use of duct tape.
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This is so cool to see. For those of us that remember Apollo and the limited views of those launches, this is truly remarkable.
For most people, it’s enough to see their paper plane fly for a few feet. The Japanese, however, want to send one 240 miles. . .through space. Cool!
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It’s truly out of this world. A nice one to hang on the wall.
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This is interesting stuff. An explanation of small orbital objects around Saturn and to some degree an idea about Earth’s earliest days.
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Here is a cool story from Engadget with pictures and video of a new robotic dinosaur called Plexo. It looks to be a next generation robotic animal much along the lines of the discontinued but still loved Sony Aibo. It looks pretty cute and if developers can generate additional programming for it, I can’t wait [...]
Located 11.6 million light-years away, the Hubble Space Telescope’s view of M81 is so sharp that it can resolve individual stars, along with open star clusters, globular star clusters, and even glowing regions of fluorescent gas. Man are we small!
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It’s always cool to imagine this happening. These details make it seem possible. A 400,000kg (880,000lb) Marship would be assembled in orbit using six Ares V cargo launch vehicle flights for a 900-day mission to the red planet. - The spacecraft would take a “minimal crew” to Mars in six to seven months, with the [...]
These are not kits you can build! Here are pictures of some of the most beautiful mechanisms ever produced. A gallery of old and new mechanical movements of planets and their moons, the entire solar system and tides and eclipses. Orreries, Planetaria and Telluria, respectively. I wish I could say I knew those words before [...]
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