The Painstaking Business of Road Tripping With a Satellite
Gently now. Gently.
Gently now. Gently.
The American space agency's intelligent abbreviations never fail to take off.
Last week residents of Houston were given a rare sight, all three of NASA's WB-57 research aeroplanes flying together. It was the first time all three have been airborne at the same time since the early '70s. Read More >>
That's according to a new study published by NASA researchers.
The orbiting detectors are designed to pinpoint global coordinates of untamed wildfires before the blazes get out of hand.
As the New Horizons spacecraft approached Pluto this summer, it sent back photos from all angles, allowing us to reconstruct an entire day on the dwarf planet. NASA has now gone and done the same for Charon, Pluto’s crater-ridden moon. Read More >>
The new system will be the first to carry astronauts into low orbit since the Saturn V, but it will also carry 10% more cargo. That's a lot of maths to work out.
SpaceX will start ferrying actual people to the ISS from 2017, provided it passes a rigorous certification process.
NASA engineers are continuing to work out the details for Orion, the spacecraft that will take actual humans to the next frontiers of space.
Explore the work of NASA-engineer Vytas SunSpiral, who has created an incredible robot inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller. (Normal names clearly not allowed.)
Meet U-2's beautiful sister (nothing to do with Bono, promise).
The rapidly-melting glaciers of Greenland are moving faster than anyone thought—and this slow-motion crisis has the potential to change the world’s coastlines forever.
The spacewalk lasted for 7 hours and 48 minutes. Hopefully you can spot this astronaut in less time than that.
Going to space is hard. This computer movie will explain how to get there using only the 1000 words in our language people use the most.
Now this is some engineering. You’re looking at a model—though sadly, not a working one—of the propulsion systems that will power the Orion European Service Module (ESM). Orion is NASA’s next deep space exploration vehicle, and it will launch atop a new Space Launch System rocket on Exploration Mission-1 in 2018.
NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft is one of the most extravagant cargo planes in the world, and it likes to eat spaceship parts for breakfast. Read More >>
