NASA will put your name on a spaceship and blast it off to another planet.
The Kerbal Space Program folks teaming with NASA was pretty cool, right? Well, it wasn't an accident. The US aeronautics outfit is embracing the space-travel...
A cool name with a futuristic, space age feeling. Possible uses: A multimedia company. An aeronautics brand. A technology firm. An app.
From a gifted 19th-century countess to a maverick naval officer, these women blazed a trail for computer programmers today.
On April 9, 1959, NASA named its first seven astronauts. The Mercury Seven or the “Original Seven” as they were called, were: Navy aviators M. Scott Carpenter, Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Alan B. Shepard Jr.; three Air Force pilots, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., Virgil I. Grissom and Donald K. “Deke” Slayton; and Marine Corps pilot John H. Glenn Jr.
[/caption] This post is part of Ada Lovelace Day, which is a worldwide effort to get as many people as possible to blog about a heroine of science or technology. Ada was a mathematician who lived in the 1800’s who created the first computer program. Yep — you read correctly — a computer in the … Continue reading "Peggy Whitson: A Heroine of Science and Technology"
Barbara Radding Morgan is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space program as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. She then trained as a Mission Specialist, and flew on STS-118 in August 2007.
(IN BRIEF) Thales, a global leader in the Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Digital Identity & Security sectors, has named Christoph
An asteroid estimated to be around the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza may hit the Earth on May 6, 2022, according to the National Aeronautics and Space
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The truth is out there, and so are dead astronauts and 13,000-year-old satellites.
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NASA Mission Control Center, 1961 / Alan Shepard waits to become the first American in space, 1961
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