January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... Ale or have a chalice of Klingon blood wine. Creators of science fiction clearly have difficulty imagining a world without alcohol and science fiction novels have a multitude of treatments for space drinks, interplanetary beer and colourful saloons...
01 April 2020
Alcohol in Space
... elements of his subject, along with some of the commercial opportunities. While space agencies may continue to ban alcohol consumption in their spacecraft and stations, it seems inevitable that space tourism will eventually feature the occasional...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... fitted with an ohmic heating electric jet engine WARP DRIVE (Water Alcohol Resistojet Propulsion Deorbit Re-entry Velocity Experiment), that works on a water-alcohol mixture. A replica of an Iridium satellite Swiss engineers at EPFL (Lausanne) have...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... the transaction details. Joann arrived at the restaurant with her husband, a retired employee of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Upon meeting and exchanging pleasantries with ‘Jeff’, Joann placed the Moon...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... nitrous oxide was developed. A small thruster, Hecht used nitrous oxide as an oxidizer in combination with aqueous methyl alcohol (28 percent methanol) fuel. It was intended for military applications. The small bipropellant engine was never used...
30 July 2015
SpaceShipTwo crash: dramatic testimony by Peter Siebold could offer new clues for space tourism safety
... and the horror, strange sights could also be found – mobile phones, even glass bottles of duty free alcohol that had made it down completely intact. Some of the physics involved in such gruesome events will always...
