Aerospace

Gravity, Who Needs It? We Do, And 4 Other Things For Long-Distance Space Travel Too

What happens to your body in space? NASA's Human Research Program has been trying to provide answers for a decade. Nature is out to kill us all on earth and space is no different. On top of that, we are isolated from family and friends, exposed to mo ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2015 - 1:34pm

Spooky Lightning At A Distance

ESA astronaut Tim Peake took this image circling Earth 400 km up in the International Space Station. He commented: “Sometimes looking down on Earth at night can be kinda spooky.” ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2016 - 11:14am

Apollo Astronauts And Cardiovascular-Related Deaths

Cardiovascular disease affects around 46 percent of men and 48 percent of women but scholars in Florida are concerned that Apollo astronauts have died from related diseases 43 percent of the time. Why be worried, when it is lower? Because they have except ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2016 - 11:35pm

Rosetta Crashes Into A Comet- On Purpose

ESA’s Rosetta mission has concluded as planned, with the controlled impact onto the small lobe of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, close to a region of active pits in the Ma’at region, which it had been investigating for more than two years.   Confirmation ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2016 - 7:13am

Why SpaceX Won't Turn Us Into A Multi-planetary Species

Anyone announcing the successful sale of tourist trips around the moon would attract ridicule and laughter. Unless your name is Elon Musk. In that case the announcement amounts to nothing more than a logical and rather modest step towards Musk's prom ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Mar 7 2017 - 6:32pm

The Science Behind Aircraft Engineering

We wingless humans have somehow come to take flying for granted. To help us renew our appreciation of the miracle of flight, we thought it might be worth our time to explore the science behind the engineering that gets our planes in the air — and our bodi ...

Blog Post - Megan Nichols - Jul 27 2017 - 11:35am

Dragonfly And CAESAR: NASA Greenlights Concepts For Missions To Titan And Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

The U.S. National Aeronautics Space Administration NASA has selected two finalist concepts for a robotic mission tentatively set to launch in the mid-2020s. The two finalists pared down from 12 are Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR), whi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2017 - 5:59pm

Citizen Science: Amateur Astronomer Finds Satellite NASA Lost For At Least 12 Years

The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) project was launched in 2000 to create the first comprehensive images of atmospheric plasma in our magnetosphere, a kind of cosmic demilitarized zone with plasmas of both solar and terrestria ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2018 - 11:30am

Too Big To Fail, Too Difficult To Complete: James Webb Space Telescope Now Maybe 2020

The James Webb Space Telescope, originally scheduled to be completed in 2007, now might be ready in 2020. If you still believe anything coming from Big Space.  Meanwhile, Big Space claims it is under-funded. While it's true many worthy small experimen ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2018 - 1:16pm

NASA Is Sending A Helicopter To Mars. That Is Not A Typo.

What started as a technology development project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in August 2013, has become The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft which will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2018 - 3:51pm