October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he pioneered optical tracking of artificial satellites at the dawn of the Space Age, in 1957, and investigated upper-atmosphere density changes using satellite observations. This led to a PhD...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
... rocket science is provided by the education team at the Space Foundation - his ‘mission control’. Cosmo showing himself off ... released content. Here we see Cosmo awakening in his spaced-age bachelor-pad and greeting another Martian morning. The main ...
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...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... on the surface of the Moon, temporarily hovering in the stratosphere, or any of the speculative works that illustrate space-age futures here on Earth. While these efforts bring public consciousness to artistic expression and techno-driven creative...
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...
