Ever since we were invited to explore the "final frontier" on the USS Enterprise, "Star Trek" technologies have also made their way into our everyday lives.
Space Engineers is a science-fiction survival and building game. This voxel-based game resembles Minecraft in its basic structure: players must mine resources and fend off enemies to survive in a hostile world but the real fun is building exciting and elaborate structures including space ships and...
The crew of Expedition 29, Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov, returned to Kazakhstan at 9:26pm EST aboard their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft. After 165 days on the International Space Station and 167 days in orbit, the International Space Station Crew ...
Air Force lieutenant colonel and pilot Scott "Kidd" Poteet, and mission specialists Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, both of whom are SpaceX engineers Get the Space.com Newsletter Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Contact me with news and ...
“good” radiation shielding on Earth, they cannot effectively withstand the stresses of launching aboard a rocket, which can sustain high g-forces during ascent.According to NASA, Titanium 5 was chosen for Juno because “While other materials exist that make good radiation blockers, e...
Isaacman and his crewmates— including close friend and former US Air Force pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet as well as SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis — hope to rack up several superlatives on this mission. First, the SpaceX capsule aims to carry the crew to rec...
Engineers assessed that fragments of the bolts could also damage the shuttle. They designed a bolt catcher to prevent the bolts from damaging the ET or hitting the orbiter. Photo courtesy NASA To detect falling debris and possible damage to the shuttle, NASA has done the following: One ...
Engineers move the rocket by rail to the launch site two days before liftoff. There, they erect the rocket. At the launch pad, the craft, roughly 50 meters (164 feet) in length, is secured with three large arms that make sure the rocket is pointed skyward. These arms will fall away ...
and space exploration entrepreneurs.\nThis book will be helpful to anyone who really wants to understand the principles behind and likely future course of interstellar travel and who wants to recognizes the distinctions between pure fantasy (such as __Star Trek__'s 'warp drive') and methods tha...