There were dozens of video cameras running during the launch of SpaceX’s Starship. These have provided rich engineering data that allows an explanation of why the rocket failed to achieve orbit and had to be destroyed.
There were dozens of video cameras running during the launch of SpaceX’s Starship. These have provided rich engineering data that allows an explanation of why the rocket failed to achieve orbit and had to be destroyed.
No new information here …. Just a better telescopic camera. The Twitter message shows the rocket flying responsibly along …. even with a few engines out.
By now we have all watched SpaceX launch their giant Starship …. Cheered when it cleared the launch tower …worried when it began to wobble …. and sighed when it had to be destroyed. The ship was clearly not flying its planned trajectory and engines were winking out.
What is this Mystery Tool…? My first thought was that it was just an older version of the classic post-hole digger that I used for years… Boy, was I wrong.
Watch Marcus House’s summary of SpaceX activity and plans, concentrating on preparations for the SpaceX StarShip to make its first flight.
People ask: “How good is NASA’s new Webb Space Telescope? Most of the time, the answer given by astronomers and scientists is too complicated…
Twenty years ago, somebody impaled a 60-pound pumpkin 170 feet off the ground on the spire at Cornell University. Nobody knows who did this or how they did it… here’s my response to my Yale roommates after a discussion of this classic prank …
Back at the turn of the century, I was sure that “The New Yorker” magazine would publish my cartoon drawing…
Hi Paw! I was talking to Krissy recently about Mommichen's ancestry and she encouraged me to reach out to you. She told me that she heard Mommichen was Jewish, do we have any evidence to support that? Thank you. - Leila
Every 12 to 18 months, people start to notice those two bright stars next to the Moon. How come they never saw them before?
The Chinese spy balloon discovered drifting over the USA and shot down as it reached the Atlantic is being recovered by Navy divers and will be analyzed by the authorities…
Look closely at this bunch of imposters. Zoom in on the tops and you will see a cool example of defensive mimicry!
Barnes Engineering’s innovation of a method to make a surface really black was very classified at the time. Now, a commercial product working with the same approach can make the surface of any object into a “light trap.” It reflects practically nothing. I read that a Vantablack-coated surface really looks like a void, a black hole, with no hint of its shape or texture, or color remaining. People say it is like looking through the object at a totally black background.
What is delightful is that the creature above, as big and heavy as a tank, actually looked like this…
Check out the Orion capsule when it is farther from Earth than any other manned spacecraft. Quite a Sci-Fi view! NASA’s highlights video from the first 13 days and another showing the return-powered flyby burn, in which the spacecraft will harness the Moon’s gravity and accelerate back toward Earth is surely worth a watch. Seeing the Moon and Earth together is a Sci Fi experience.
Mystery UN-solved! Is it gold or is it black? The theory that the gold dome reflects clear and cloudy sky differently is reinforced by this. But I am at a loss as to how to explain it.
Zalenskyi, knowing the power of communication, changed the county’s “Rules of Appropriate Language” to allow Ukrainian print and broadcast media to openly use the phrase “Russian Warship, go F$CK yourselves.”
The Artemis program was initiated to essentially re-create the capability demonstrated fifty years ago by NASA in the abandoned Apollo mission…
Excellent choice by NASA … the Artemis Zero Gravity Indicator aboard the Orion capsule!
