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...
29 March 2018
North American X-15 Owners’ Workshop Manual
...flight log, along with a useful index. In common with other space-related ‘workshop manuals’ in the series, it is well illustrated... impression that the test pilots and astronauts of the early Space Age were made from a different – and long-ago-broken ...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... time it may surprise you. Why? Because the Next Space Age already started, will not freeze, and by the time new...' work to innovate on the platforms created in the first Space Age -- assuring your eventual irrelevance. The opportunity is a new administration ...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... around the world read ‘SpaceShipOne makes history: first private manned mission to space’. On this historic day, everyone witnessed the dawn of a new space age as investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites launched...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
... that can be filled and carried in a very unobtrusive way. The style of clothing recalled the start of the Space Age in the 1960s by Pierre Cardin and André Courreges, with shapes and volumes of pockets reminiscent of lunar craters...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... alcohol on both the Russian Mir space station and the International Space Station (ISS). According to cosmonaut Alexander Lazutkin, “During prolonged space missions, especially at the beginning of the space age, we had alcoholic drinks in the...
