Posts Tagged ‘space shuttle’
Robots – The Future For NASA?
Robots - The Future For NASA? By Doug Wetzel Impossible. That's what the 2009 Augustine committee reported about prospects for NASA's human exploration of space, at least for the next seven years. NASA's budget issues remain at the top of the list holding humans from space but the same future may not hold true for its robots. Two recent [...]
Science – Space Shuttle, NASA’s Gamble on Safe Re-Entry at 3000 F (30,000 Tiles, $10K Each!)
Science - Space Shuttle, NASA's Gamble on Safe Re-Entry at 3000 F (30,000 Tiles, $10K Each!) By Aaron Kolom Whereas the concept for shielding astronauts and their space vehicles from the extremes of reentry heat for the first vehicles in space, Mercury and Apollo, was "overkill" assurance, an excess of ablatable fiberglass and resin [...]
Kill NASA – Kill Dreams!
Kill NASA - Kill Dreams! By Pat Redmond It started in the fourth grade. My daughter launched her first rocket. It was the beginning of a dream. In the next several years, she won two national science competitions, will return to NASA's Goddard for a second internship this summer and will attend Georgia Tech in the fall to study Aerospace [...]
