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As a 12-year-old, he watched the Sputnik launch, and that was when he decided to work in the space industry and to try his best to become an astronaut. "All my energy was focused," he says, adding that aspiring astronauts should "be tenacious." Read: How to Be...
Photo courtesy NASA In its nearly 30-year history, the space shuttle program has seen exhilarating highs and devastating lows. The fleet has taken astronauts on dozens of successful missions, resulting in immeasurable scientific gains. But this success has had a serious cost. In 1986, the ...
NASA Building the International Space Station (ISS) is much like building a toy using a child's LEGO or K'nex building block set. But whereas those playthings tend to be small in scale, the ISS contains thousands and thousands of parts [source: Hollingham]. Some of the major components...
for spending this money vary, and not all of it is legally available to spend in any one year. Many agencies have as much as five years to expend the funds from the infrastructure law, for example. About $300 billion of the infrastructure money can only be spent after this year. ...
NASA was in a similar position just last year. Astronaut Frank Rubio was stranded on the ISS when a violent coolant leak popped up on the Russian Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft he rode to the ISS as part of the Expedition 68 mission. Rubio would go on to spend 371 continuous days in space,...
Over the last few decades, there's been a major shift in energy use: modern homeowners spend a much higher percentage of their utility bills powering appliances and air conditioning than they did back in the late 20th century. Take a look at the donut chart below. In 1978 (inner ring),...
These servers provide split tunneling, 256-bit encryption, built-in ad blockers, kill switches, and much more. PureVPN does have one of the best interfaces with a separate tab for Netflix. It's also compatible with Amazon Prime Video, so if you've run out of content on Netflix, you ...
In the Human Factors domain, a mental state that has gathered much attention since its creation in the aeronautical context is Situation Awareness (SA). Endsley defined SA as “the perception of the elements in the environment within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their ...
Standard tier packets spend less time on Google’s network, and more time playing hot potato on public networks, and thus, perform worse (but cost less). How much of an impact does this have? Well, for data traveling across continents, the premium tier network is about 41% faster, on ...