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82A Space Shuttle Booster Engine That Was Designed to the Width of Horse Buttocks
Engineers of NASA wanted to make the booster rocket of a space shuttle bigger, but they couldn’t make it bigger than 4ft 8.5in, all because of the SIZE OF HORSE BUTTOCKS. Let’s see why. August 8, 2007: The space shuttle Endeavor was launched....
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88Where To Watch a Space Shuttle Launch
This article discusses the pros and cons of the five main places to view a space shuttle launch. It will discuss the best places to see a Space Shuttle launch – free places and places that require tickets or fees.
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78Flying Into a Black Hole
I read an unusual question stated in an issue of Popular Science recently. It asked what would happen if a person were to swallow a spoonful of white dwarf star. The one who answered the question went into gory detail over the many ways it would be...
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77Some Details on Rockets and Thrust.
In a previous Hub we reviewed in some detail the conservation of momentum. In that hub we outlined the fact that the sum of the mass and velocity is the momentum, and the momentum of two objects must be conserved. So when two objects are...
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85How To Become An Astronaut!
Not only do you need the balls the size of hypergiant twin binary-stars. You will need a baggage of academic and practical excellence. Your first step on the way to space is to consider what kind of astronaut you're going to be. And no, you will...
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78What's NASA Worth?
Space cowboys, riding their expensive rocket engines into the sky, are wasting our time and money. Their job ended when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, but continues to give our strained economy no respite. This perception of the National...
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79The Hubble Space Telescope: Astronomers Eye in the Sky
Astronomers dreamed of a telescope in space or an eye in the sky for many decades. The Hubble Space Telescope was the result of those dreams. In 1973 NASA selected a team to design the telescope and its instruments. The specs originally called...
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75Moonraker (1979) - Illustrated Reference
A look back at the 11th James Bond movie, with facts, posters, reviews and photos.
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77The Last Space Shuttle Mission
NASA’s final space shuttle mission will be STS-133. This planned ten day mission will take the space shuttle and a crew of five astronauts to the International Space Station, or ISS. The STS-133 mission...
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72Water on Mars: What Could it Mean?
Now that water has been found on Mars, will this lead to us mining the planet? Or will we find that aliens have beaten us to it?
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