Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Friday, June 3, 2011
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Your Cold As Ice.......
These last few days in Austin have been the coldest that I can remember with temperatures dropping into the teens. On the bright side my birth place in England has become a frozen wasteland. Due to the Gulf Stream Great Brittan is unusually warm considering its latitude. Well this week the Gulf Stream has been redirected to Greenland leaving the UK looking more like Iceland in this photo from NASA.
Monday, October 26, 2009
It's Not Rocket Science. Oh Wait Yes It Is.
On Tuesday NASA will launch a prototype of a new space vehicle it hopes will replace the aging Space Shuttle. The Ares I-X will be the first new planned manned vehicle that NASA has tested in decades. The Ares I-X at 327 feet is the world largest rocket and measures almost double the length of the Space Shuttle. Though this test launch will be human free in the future astronauts would sit in a small capsule in the top of the ship. The price tag for the test flight is $445 million an eye raising number in this economy. The Ares program may be doomed anyways as the Obama administration is seriously looking into NASA's future manned space flight programs.
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