In 1983, Foster-Grant, the sunglasses manufacturer, commercialized the scratch-resistant coating, and today, the majority of eyeglasses sold in the United States are outfitted with plastic lenses that last 10 times as long as the old ones [source: Space Foundation ]. Can you guess which NASA...
For example, memory foam, developed by NASA in 1966 to absorb shock in airplane seats, ultimately found uses in Tempur-Pedic mattresses, football helmets, shoes, hospital beds, prosthetics, cars, amusement parks and modern art. The space agency also has transformed products that it didn't ...
The truth of the matter is NASA has all but admitted the landings were fake, and anybody who works in the space industry or has any knowledge about rocket science has quietly accepted that the whole thing was a charade. So why the hell is nobody talking about this? We literally didn’t...
and GM is now killing off its efforts to build robotaxis to concentrate on incorporating the Cruise technology into its “Super Cruise” suite of driver-assistance features for its full line of cars and trucks. We feel like this might be a tacit admission that surmounting the problems of fully...
When Challenger disintegrated, I was all of 15 years old, and it shook me to see the people I had thought capable of engineering miracles stumble so badly. But it was comforting to think that NASA–that we–had learned and would never again think that “this worked every other time” out...
Owners tend to drive them like sports cars, according to Hays, so the company is offering an alternative to the factory-installed brakes, which aren't designed for that kind of handling. NextWave will enable faster stops and better direction changes, in addition to a different kind of cool ...
which authorized the creation of a new civilian agency named the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The act formalized the United States' predominantly military space operations and also marked the end of the 42-year-old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which previously ...
Most of us are never going to get the chance to hop inside any of Space X’s amazing space vehicles and just sit there like little kids in the coolest toy store ever. Everyone make a sad face. But now you can give a big hug to our old buddy the Internet for helpingSpace X provide...
Delayed by Hurricane Helene poundingFlorida, the latest SpaceX liftoff marked the first for astronauts from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX took over the old Titan rocket pad nearly two decades ago and used it for sat...
The SLS and Orion spacecraft will be used to send the first woman and the next man to the Moon by 2024, a time-pressing task previously dragged down by multiple delays of SLS building. The core stage in its current configuration is about 58 meters or the size of 12 cars parked end-to...