How Did Real Life Flying Help Me Play Kerbal Space Program?
Kerbal Space Program definitely helped me understand how aerodynamics applies to aircraft, which helped immensely during pilot training, and, the reverse is also true, looking at real aircraft and now understanding the design choices made in the real world and how they can apply to making better aircraft for the little green men. Follow me […]
Watch A SpaceX Rocket Landing From Another Rocket! #shorts
From one of the side boosters on the latest Falcon Heavy Launch 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 Spacecraft ‘Hears’ Massive Explosion On Mars, Finds Crater Bigger Than Football Field!
Since Mars Insight began monitoring seismic events on Mars it recorded many tectonic events, and many asteroid impacts. However a new study looks at two of the largest events, one on December 21st 2021 created a large 150meter crater and was likely caused by an asteroid weighing 500 tons travelling at 7-8 kilometers per second. […]
Ejecting A Floppy Disk in Zero-G – Why NASA Flew A Mac on the Space Shuttle
The story behind the free floating floppy video clip from a 1990’s space shuttle mission. NASA has flown many computers during the space shuttle program, they were used to run experiments and run software which didn’t fit into the main flight computer. On STS-41 a Mac Portable was flown as part of a test of […]
Russia Launches All Its Space Rockets – Deep Space Updates – October 26th
It’s been over 2 weeks, so there’s a lot of space news to catch up on, in particular Russia has managed to get launches in with all of its launch vehicles and from all of its launch sites. Many thanks to Trevor Mailman for the amazing Moon Transit Footage of Falcon 9 carrying Galaxy 33/34 […]
Can Humans Make Gravitational Waves & Other Deep Space Questions 20
Answering more questions in an off the cuff manner…. This episode was edited by my son Orion who’s still learning this, which might explain a few glitches. Tidal heating of planets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_heating Starship animation from SpaceX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Oox2w5sMcA Werner von Braun’s Mars Project https://amzn.to/3UkYkR8 If you really like what I do you can support me directly […]
JWST Imaged The Pillars Of Creation – Returning To One of Hubble's Most Iconic Sights #shorts
I had to Download the full 122 megapixel image here: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/052/01GF423GBQSK6ANC89NTFJW8VM 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
How Would Maverick Survive Ejecting From the SR-72 Darkstar At Mach 10?
Sometimes people tweet wrong things and I feel compelled to make a video: Neil Degrasse Tyson made a number of comments about Top Gun 2: Maverick including this one which spoke to me: When Maverick ejected at Mach 10.5, he was going 7,000 mph, giving him 400 million joules of kinetic energy — the explosive […]
Killer Asteroids Beware: DART Mission Finale Shows Spectacular Results
After only two weeks astronomers have been able to peer through the dust cloud and measure just how effective the DART mission was at changing the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos. And this is surprising because I had worried the amount of dust in the vicinity would make measuring the photometry with enough precision a […]
Why Do Rockets 'Crackle'? How Supersonic Jets Make This Distinctive Sound.
Rockets are some of the loudest things that humans can experience, the Saturn V generated more power than entire US electric grid and converted about 1% of that into sound! There’s a very distinctive crackle in the sound of a rocket which is a result of turbulence in the shear layer between the exhaust and […]