Sally Ride's Astronaut Class Completely Changed NASA's Demographics
Though Sally Ride was the first woman in space, her astronaut cohort marked a number of important changes in NASA's astronaut selection.
Articles tagged "space shuttle"
Was Space Shuttle Challenger a Casualty of Bad Data Visualization?
The U.S. is no stranger to the collapse of complex systems. But two decades before the break-up of Space Shuttle Columbia, the Deepwater Horizon blowout, and Fukashima Daiichi, America witnessed the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, and saw ha…
What You Are Not Allowed to Do in Space
Before he returned to Earth on the Space Shuttle for the last time, Andrew Feustel got something stuck in his eye. On earth, a couple tears would have solved the problem--unlike Chuck Norris, astronauts can apparently shed tears--but the thing is, in…
How Should We Remember the Space Shuttle
h3. Also see Neil deGrasse Tyson explain "why we had a space shuttle":http://motherboard.tv/2011/7/8/shuttle-diplomacy-watch-neil-degrasse-tyson-explain-how-the-space-shuttle-was-never-really-about-science There are a lot of self-described shuttle…
Space Oddity: My Weird Year with NASA
bq. _“Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don’t tell me man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go.”_ --Wernher von Braun A few years ago, I v…
Shuttle Diplomacy: Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Explain How the Space Shuttle Was Never Really About Science
Among those gloating over the demise of the Space Shuttle are none other than scientists, who argue that the costly and overly complex program was sapping valuable resources from real space science and sending them up on "toilet repair missions":http…
The Spectacle of the Space Shuttle
The launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis this Friday marks the end of a technological and national era. In the 30 years of NASA's space shuttle program, six orbiters were built, 135 launches occurred, 355 astronauts went for the ride, and 14 never came h…
Meet Endeavor's Dark Matter-Hunting Payload
As if spacewalking and zero gravity pooping aren’t exciting enough, space shuttle _Endeavor_ blasted off last week with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer tucked into its cargo bay. The mission of the AMS is no less than snagging particles of antimatter…
Dreaming Infinity: Starscream's Soaring Space Anthems Will Get the Space Shuttle Endeavour Off The Ground
More than a week after it was scheduled to embark on its final mission, the Space Shuttle Endeavour remains silent on its launch pad, grounded due to increasingly perplexing complications with the shuttle's power supply. The new prospective date is M…
New York City Just Got a Space Shuttle That Has Never Been to Space
The ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch featured a teary-eyed Charlie Bolton, the NASA administrator, answering the question space nerds across the country had been waiting to hear since the agency announced the
Shuttle Launch Makes For Excellent In-Flight Entertainment
"NeilMonday":http://www.youtube.com/user/NeilMonday had the rare opportunity of experiencing Space Shuttle Discovery's final launch from tens of thousands of miles up in the air.
Space Shuttle Parking Lot: A Documentary About Humanity's Greatest Spectacle
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