16 January 2022
The Art of NASA
... the fact that, in the early days of the Space Age, most televisions and newspapers were ‘black and white’, ... has a certain charm. Interestingly, more than six decades into the Space Age, we still rely on artists to show us what spacecraft flying by...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... Irene Bredt did theoretical studies of hypersonic vehicle concepts capable of oceanspanning flights.4 With the start of the space age, hypersonic flight became practical, but only as a means of returning spacecraft from orbit. The problem of surface...
July 2020
Trailblazing STEM education
... process of transformation commenced to ensure that the “Virginia Air & Space Center would not be just a nice place, but an essential ... barriers with her mind at the dawn of the Space Age. She was a female African-American mathematician working at...
26 February 2018
Moon – Owners’ Workshop Manual
...Moon?’ is a question often heard in space law sessions at international conferences. The ... via a potted history of famous astronomers, to lunar missions through the Space Age. The book is well illustrated in colour and monochrome which, along with...
11 October 2018
ISRO: a personal history
... felt more like the Count of Monte Cristo imprisoned on an island.” His account of the challenges involved in operating a Space Age facility in an area known for its migratory birds and “huge and vicious… feral bees” (which built...
June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
... is 10 times a B1 flare and an X45 flare is 45 times an X1). For comparison, the largest X-ray flare recorded during the Space Age was the 4 November 2003 event estimated at about X35. Location of eyewitness accounts (orange dots) and magnetometer...
