The Strangest Flight Simulator NASA Ever Built
From NASA studies of the Lunar Escape System https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19710013114/downloads/19710013114.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19700022470/downloads/19700022470.pdf Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley source
NASA's New Airliner Experiment To Make Flying Less Expensive
This week NASA signed onto a Space Act Agreement with Boeing on a project to build a full size version of the Transonic Truss Braced Wing design with a goal of demonstrating significant improvements in efficiency that will directly translate to improved fuel consumption and lower costs. This may be a blueprint for a future […]
Exclusive: Kerbal Space Program 2 Rocket!! Playable in KSP
Lol… as if people didn’t complain about shorts already. https://store.steampowered.com/app/954850/Kerbal_Space_Program_2/ Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley source
NASA’s Plan To Rescue Stranded Astronauts – Playing Sardines In A Space Capsule
In 1973 there were concerns that the crew on Skylab may be stuck without a ride home after half the thrusters on the Service module failed. In response NASA turned to its existing Skylab Rescue plans which involved squeezing 5 people into a capsule designed for 3, and assigned Vance Brand and Don Lind to […]
ABL's RS-1 Rocket Fails Seconds Into its Maiden Launch
ABL Space Systems made their maiden launch and it looks like it crashed back to earth after about 20 seconds. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon […]
Dream Chaser – The Dream Of Lifting Body Space Planes
Dream Chaser isn’t the first space plane, it is however on course to be the first operational Lifting Body space plane, intended to perform its first demo launch on a Vulcan rocket and rendezvous with the International Space Station during 2022. But its been a long time coming, the concept of lifting body space planes […]
SpaceX’s Record Breaking 2022 – Deep Space Updates – January 5th 2023
The first of my Deep Space Updates for 2023 – The final launches of 2022, where China proved that it can just about keep up with SpaceX if you count the entire nation’s rocket fleet and ignore metrics such as ‘total mass to orbit’. There were a few other news stories, but the holiday season […]
The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds
I found this fascinating story about a computerized telemetry system which was designed to be placed in the heart of a nuclear warhead, replacing the plutonium pit in a test device. I’m not 100% sure this was flown because the documentation disappears about 20 years ago, which is likely to be the case if it […]
Does it Snow On Other Planets?
Can you dream of a White Christmas on Mars? Sure if you’re close to the polar ice caps there’s a chance of snow. But other planets have different types of precipitation which isn’t necessarily water, and isn’t necessarily from clouds. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I have a discord server […]
Failure of Arianespace's Vega-C Rocket
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