Day job just too darn terrestrial? Maybe you should score a gig at Boeing, which’ll apparently sling two of its very own into space come 2015. What’ll be their chariot? The company’s CST-100 — you know that spiffy capsule that can hurtle a lucky seven humans 100km into the dark abyss. Strapped to ULA’s Atlas [...]
Last month was friggen hot. Seriously, you’d have been wise to follow some of our advice on how to keep cool. But, put into context, it gets crazier. Judging from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s data, I’m surprised we made it. The data above shows the places that broke heat records by by day [...]
Eight years after the fiery horror of the Columbia disaster, a lost piece of the atmospheric sorrow has been discovered beneath a drought-shriveled Texan lake, CNN reports. The dilapidated, muddy orb remains a painful symbol of the cracked vessel. NASA’s confirmed 4-foot module, which provided electricity and water to the killed crew, is indeed from [...]
Swedish sea treasure hunters have found something extraordinary: A 60-foot disc sunk in the bottom of the ocean, with what appears to be 985-foot-long impact tracks leading to it. The team leader never found anything like it: “You see a lot of weird stuff in this job but during my 18 years as a professional [...]
So you’re the first person in town to adopt an electric vehicle (EV), even clearing room for that 240v charging station in the garage. But what do you when you venture far from home, edging past the 200 mile mark on your Tesla Roadster? Well, if the Sanya Skypump ever sees the light of day [...]
The end. It’s all over. Three decades of the Space Shuttle, with its many amazing successes and two horrible failures, are gone forever. This video shows those thirty years in one single launch. The space shuttle was the most complex machine ever created. Even with all its faults, it was a mighty beast. Combined, the [...]
Since the Space Shuttle couldn’t very well fly itself to the launch pad, NASA had to figure out how to get $1.7 billion worth of spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building the the Launch Pad. Their solution: the 2700-ton Crawler-Transporter. Problem solved. Standing 10-12 feet high, 131 feet wide, and 114 feet long, each vehicle—nicknamed [...]
What is the deadliest animal in the world? Lions? Sharks? Bears? Bees? Snakes? Rats? It was bears, wasn’t it? Is it bears? No, it’s the lowly mosquito, and it’s not even close. Thanks to their ability to spread diseases like malaria they take out a mind-boggling two million people a year. Mankind’s desire to stop [...]
The shuttle Atlantis has touched down at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida for the last time, lowering the curtain on one of the most eventful eras in America’s long history of human spaceflight. The craft’s pre-dawn landing at the remote airstrip in the north of the space centre was a timid affair compared with [...]
At some point, you look at a picture and think, it is seriously insane that we can do this. Behold: the Orbiter Discovery approaching the International Space Station, as seen from the ground!
