The Apollo 1 Fire: Failure Was An Option
“NASA believed that necessary and sufficient action had been taken to prevent a fire. Of course, all ignition sources had not been eliminated.”
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The Apollo 1 Fire: “I’m burning up!”
“Hey!” and Ed White broadcast, “I’ve got a fire in the cockpit!” The Apollo outer hull ruptured and all three astronauts were dead.
The Apollo 1 Fire: Not The First Apollo Astronauts To Die On The Job
Grissom, White and Chaffee weren’t the first Apollo astronauts to die on the job. Four died in NASA training jet accidents. Why didn’t they get more attention?
Owners of Pre-2012 Kindles Need to Update
Pre-2012 Kindles need to be updated by the end of today.
The Apollo 1 Fire: Astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee
Astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee were American heroes destined to go to the Moon. Unfortunately, neither of them made it.
The Apollo 1 Fire: Astronaut Gus Grissom
NASA’s “Failure is not an option” started after the Apollo 1 fire. Too late for Gus Grissom.
AMAZING NEWS: 1/24/1…”some call it heavenly in its brilliance”
aliens, aliens and more aliens; Boskone, space flowers, ice volcanoes, Groot, drones and Star Trek. Plus Suicide Squad and GotG. And – you guessed it – even more.
Falcon 9 Lands the Way a Spaceship Should
Spaceships landing the way they should! Welcome to the science fiction future.
Star Trek vs. International Space Station: Transporters & Robots & Tribbles (Oh my!)
“Three to beam up”. To compare Star Trek with ISS here, I need to stretch a bit.
Asni’s Art Blog: Moon Landing
I belong to a generation who have grown up in the knowledge that humans can fly to the moon.
Star Trek USS Enterprise vs. International Space Station: Computers
“Kirk to Enterprise …” Star Trek vs. ISS computers. Who wins Round 2?
Did Star Trek Get It Right?: USS Enterprise vs. International Space Station (Round 2)
“Earl Grey, hot.” The ISS is alreay breaking in prototypes of the tech Star Trek’s ships will employ in 2265 AD.
Did Star Trek Get It Right?: USS Enterprise vs. International Space Station (Part 1)
“These are the voyages”. Just how correct is Star Trek’s “future” so far?
Citizens of the Solar System: Cool TECHNOLOGY on the International Space Station
From Luke Skywalker’s “remotes” to Star Trek’s Mr. Data, science fiction is fast becoming fact on the International Space Station.
Citizens of the Solar System: Cool SCIENCE on the International Space Station
There’s a boatload of scientific research experiments currently being done on ISS. NASA doesn’t publicize this much, but I found the range and number of them staggering!
Asni’s Art Blog: Satellite Dish
Satellite dishes aren’t usually considered to have great visual appeal, but the collection of images I found is surprisingly poetic.
Citizens of the Solar System: 50 Years On and We’re STILL Stuck in Near-Earth Orbit?
We’ve been sending humans into near-Earth orbit for over 50 years now. Can’t we just move on?
Citizens of the Solar System: Who Owns The Planets?
Is the Solar System freely available for colonization? Are the asteroids fair game for commercial mining? Maybe. Maybe not.
Citizens of the Solar System: The Big Question, “But Why Human Spaceflight?”
When someone asks, “What are we spending taxpayers money on human spaceflight?”, what’s your answer?
Asni’s Art Blog: Escalator
Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Hell – escalators symbolise glitzy promises of glamour, or the grunge of broken down technology.
Shuttle Astronaut Mike Mullane on “The Amazing Flight Software People”
Shuttle Astronaut Mike Mullane has some thoughts about the IBM team who built the Shuttle onboard flight software.
Asni’s Art Blog: Robot
So what’s the difference between a robot, an android (or droid), and a cyborg?
Space Shuttle First Flights: The Amazing Flight Software People
The people who designed, tested and supported the Space Shuttle Flight Software were the most exceptional technical team I’ve encountered.
Space Shuttle First Flights: An Era Ends, A New Age Begins
Space Shuttle is ended. The future of near-earth manned spaceflight is now in the hands of private industry. As I believe it should be.
Asni’s Art Blog: Space Station
Space stations are a technological reality, but also a quintessential locus for projecting dreams about a bright technological future which might take humans to the stars.
Space Shuttle First Flights: The Legacy of Space Shuttle
Was Space Shuttle worth it? The International Space Station. The Hubble Space Telescope. How do you set a value on something that humans had only dreamed about?
Shuttle Astronaut Mike Mullane Describes Orbiter Damage on STS-27 (Atlantis 1988) & STS-107 (Columbia 2003)
Guest blogger veteran Shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane weighs in on the severe impact damage to Atlantis on his own 1988 flight (STS-27) and to Columbia’s disastrous flight in 2003 (STS-107)
Space Shuttle First Flights: Columbia (February 3, 2003)
As with Apollo 13, NASA “can do amazing things when they’ve got their back against the wall”. But for Space Shuttle Columbia they didn’t try.
Space Shuttle First Flights: Challenger (“Nature Cannot Be Fooled”)
Richard Feynman’s question about Space Shuttle Challenger was, “What is the cause of management’s fantastic faith in the machinery?”
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