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The trials of bad weather.
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<p>Sort of.</p>
Awesome. I love the little blast of air they get at around the 48-second mark.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmxM_CknSZw
Engineers with the Office of Naval Research set a new world record on Friday by firing an electromagnetic railgun "cannon" with an energy of 33 megajoules, or 33 million joules. That would be enough, in an operational system, to shoot a projectile 110 miles from a ship, at speeds up to Mach 5.Here'...
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Where would we be without the Traffic Collision Avoidance System?
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The man who set the G-force tolerance record
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<p>Where there's water, there's life.</p>
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<p>Scott Crossfield knew how to keep cool.</p>
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T-38 pilots fly precariously close over a football game at the University of Iowa
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The story of a jet flight in 1910, just seven years after Kitty Hawk, may be too good to be true.
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I learned that a titan of lunar science passed away last month.
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We've come a long way from Madalyn Murray O'Hair.She was, you'll recall, the activist atheist who campaigned against government sanctioning of religion—including NASA astronauts reading from the Book of Genesis during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.But times have changed. Even Russians are now carryi...
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Score another one for the extremophiles.Biologists had already discovered organisms that can survive everything from high levels of radiation to vacuum to total darkness. Now they've found one that uses arsenic as a substitute for phosphorus, one of the six elements (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxy...
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<p>It's got better days behind it, and ahead.</p>
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Having already found more than 500 planets circling distant stars, scientists are getting better at understanding what they're made of. A group led by Jacob Bean at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reports in this week's Nature that they've analyzed the atmosphere of a planet only sl...
Familiar to every pilot who has ever flown.
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<p>Even when you put your heads together.</p>
This line from a recent NASA Inspector General report jumped out at me: In addition to managing Shuttle funding challenges, the transition and retirement activities associated with the end of the Shuttle Program present one of the largest such efforts ever undertaken by NASA. The Shuttle Program is...
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