30 July 2015
SpaceShipTwo crash: dramatic testimony by Peter Siebold could offer new clues for space tourism safety
... about his dramatic plummet to Earth reads like something straight out of a more-horrifying-than-usual action film. The fact that Siebold made it was deemed to be nothing short of a miracle. Indeed, crashes are often full...
14 September 2015
Back to the future: SpaceX presents Crew Dragon interior
... palette, meanwhile, is pleasantly black-and-white, reminding us of the 2004 cinematic adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s “I,Robot.” The film itself wasn’t a great success, but there was something hypnotic about its use of black and white...
14 June 2016
Astronomers discover a giant planet orbiting two suns
... professor of physics at Lehigh University, to gather observations worldwide that helped confirm its identity. With the advent of films such as Star Wars, planets with more than one sun have long captivated our imagination, yet...
05 August 2016
Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Games, Brought to You by Your Local Satellite
... creation of the satellites in use today. The first artificial communications satellite was Echo-1, a 30-meter aluminised PET film balloon that reflected radio communications. It was launched on August 12, 1960 and was the first artificial satellite...
