Beyond Earth Orbit
It’s Not a New Space Race
"We want a new space race - space races are exciting". Elon Musk after successful launch of Falcon Heavy. Background China and the United States are fierce competitors in economics, technology, military and recently in space exploration. Does this competition imply a...
Decision: Apollo 8 To The Moon
Background The flight of Apollo 8 is an historical watershed in the course of human spaceflight. Its circumlunar mission which climaxed in a dramatic television broadcast on Christmas Eve 1968, marked a point in time when humanity became a true spacefaring culture....
Deep space travel has deep crap problems to solve
Many people take it for granted, but in Space, going to the bathroom is not a minor effort. With a lack of gravity, engineers over the years have been refining the approach to make it work in space. NASA is ready to launch its latest version of the space...
The Far Side of the Moon
Classic Rock legends Pink Floyd designated the far side of the moon The Dark Side of the Moon in a 1973 album release. This unfortunate name has stuck because the far side of the moon is anything but dark. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon released in 1973....
JWST is no comparison to Hubble Space Telescope, here is why.
Astronomers dealt with a major several problems since the inception of astronomy. First, objects give off electromagnetic radiation. The human eye's ability to detect the visible spectrum restricts us from seeing other electromagnetic radiation. Second, distant...
NASA’s Lunar Gateway getting HALO and PPE
A big announcement about the NASA Lunar Gateway came out on Friday June 5th, 2020. NASA officially awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) for the preliminary design and development of the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO). The...
NASA spends $3M on LASVEGAS, wait what??
NASA awarded some pretty odd contracts in the past. NASA also likes catchy acronyms for their projects. The Southwest Research Institute just got $3 million bucks from NASA for LASVEGAS development. No, not Las Vegas the place for high stakes gambling. LASVEGAS stands...
Elon Musk’s Keynote at SATELLITE 2020: A Reflection
Elon Musk is perhaps the world’s most polarizing person. Most people are not polarizing. Most polarizing people, you either love them, or you hate them. Elon Musk is one of very few people who is so polarizing that not only can you love him, but you can also hate him,...
Apollo 15 Hammer and Feather – Gravity at work
Apollo 15 Hammer and Feather drop test Credit NASA Imagine two objects. We connect one light object and one heavier object to each other by a string. Climb to the top of a tower with these two objects. It is a calm, sunny day with little wind. Once you reach the top,...
NASA’s doomsday Asteroid plan taking shape, and they are not calling Bruce Willis this time.
What happens if an asteroid hits Earth? Bruce Willis might have saved the world by blowing up a nuclear device on an asteroid in the film Armageddon. In the movie, Bruce Willis heroically sacrifices his life, breaking the killer Asteroid in two. But this time,...
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