Who did that, who actually made that change? Well it was someone called Mr Kingsbury that the engineers could never get a meeting with. So somewhere in the NASA office complex Mr. Kingsbury sat, changing one in 100 to one in 100,000 and making the Space Shuttle disaster happen. I'm fa...
Then,if you did survive, then after any even remotely likely disaster, the most habitable place in the solar system, the easiest place to restore and terraform after the disaster, would still be the Earth. So the best thing you could do is get back to Earth a...
The Space Race had begun, and NASA’s first order of business would be to get a man into space, and then a man into full orbit, preferably both before the Soviets. The US was not to be shown up again. In 1959, NASA launched Project Mercury to carry out the mission. They were on ...