Wonder Woman #33, 1949
Posted: December 17, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Mediasphere, Space & Aviation | Tags: 1940s, Comic book, Comics, Illustration, Rocket, vintage, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman #33 Leave a comment
Image from Wonder Woman #33 (1949)
Galileo Soyuz VS13 Liftoff
Posted: December 17, 2015 Filed under: Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Galileo Soyuz VS13, Rocket, Space Exploration Leave a comment[PHOTO] Atlas Negative Collection Image
Posted: December 1, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: 1960s, Atlas program, Photography, Rocket, Space Exploration, Space Travel Leave a comment
Atlas Negative Collection Image
PictionID:44582495 – Catalog:14_012372 – Title:Atlas Details: Pad 13; Prelaunch Alert Date: 11/10/1961
Destination Moon: Preparing to Launch the Apollo Manned Spacecraft at Cape Kennedy
Posted: November 28, 2015 Filed under: Education, History, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Apollo program, Cape Kennedy, Illustration, Moon Mission, NASA, Rocket, Spacecraft Leave a comment
[PHOTOS] NASA Releases the Images of the Antares Rocket Failure
Posted: November 5, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Antares, NASA, Photography, Rocket, Rocket Failure, Space Exploration Leave a comment[VIDEO] Meet the Fastest Car Ever Made
Posted: May 11, 2015 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, Science & Technology | Tags: Bloodhound Project, Bloodhound SCC, Concorde, Jet, Land Speed Record, Mark Chapman, Mathematics, MPH, racing, Racing Car, Rocket, Speed Leave a commentPart spaceship, part racing car, part jet fighter, we go behind-the-scenes to discover how to reach 1,000mph on land
Dubbed as the Concorde for this generation by its makers, the SSC in Bloodhound SSC stands for supersonic car. If all goes to plan, the hope is this vehicle will smash not only the current land speed record but also the air speed record by exceeding 1,000mph (1,600km/h).
So how do you create something that can reach these remarkable speeds? Mark Chapman, chief engineer of the Bloodhound project reveals what it takes to create such a machine. Find out why it needs three engines, and the key problem that took 18 months to solve.
[PHOTO] Rocket Engineer Wernher von Braun in Front of his Saturn V Engine
Posted: April 5, 2015 Filed under: Humor, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Rocket, Rocketry, Saturn V, Saturn V Engine, Space Exploration, Wernher von Braun 2 Comments
SpaceX Launches Rocket, Attempt to Land Booster Falls Short: ‘Close, but No Cigar’
Posted: January 10, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Cargo ship, Dragon (spacecraft), Earth, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, International Space Station, NASA, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Rocket, SpaceShipTwo, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic Leave a commentMelody Petersen reports: Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent a cargo capsule loaded with International Space Station supplies into orbit Saturday morning, but the company’s unprecedented attempt to set down the craft’s first-stage rocket on an ocean barge was rocky and damaged the booster.
“Rocket made it to the drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho.”
— Elon Musk
The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral at 1:47 a.m. Pacific time.
Within minutes, the cargo-filled capsule separated from the first-stage booster rocket and continued on its way to orbit and rendezvous with the space station.
That was when SpaceX attempted what had never been done: flying the 13-story booster back to Earth and landing it upright on an ocean barge.
The booster made it to the barge, but Musk tweeted that some of the vessel’s equipment was damaged by the impact. “Ship itself is fine,” he wrote. “Some of the support equipment on the deck will need to be replaced.”
“Didn’t get good landing/impact video,” he tweeted. “Pitch dark and foggy. Will piece it together from telemetry and … actual pieces.”
Hawthorne-based SpaceX hopes to one day be able to reuse the first stage, which includes the expensive and powerful engines needed to blast the capsule to orbit. The planned landing and recovery of the first stage is part of Musk’s goal to eventually be able to refly the same spacecraft many times, greatly lowering the cost of space flight. Read the rest of this entry »
SpaceX Will Try to Land Falcon 9 Rocket on Floating Platform Next Week
Posted: December 10, 2014 Filed under: Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Elon Musk, Falcon (rocket family), Falcon 9, Grid fin, Multistage rocket, Oil platform, Reusable launch system, Rocket, Soft landing (rocketry), SpaceX 2 Comments
Space.com Senior Writer Mike Wall, reports: SpaceX will apparently attempt something truly epic during next week’s cargo launch to the International Space Station.
During the Dec. 16 launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which will send SpaceX’s robotic Dragon capsule toward the orbiting lab, the California-based company will try to bring the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth for a controlled landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
“There are a lot of launches that will occur over the next year. I think it’s quite likely that [on] one of those flights, we’ll be able to land and refly, so I think we’re quite close.”
The bold maneuver marks a big step forward in SpaceX’s development of reusable-rocket technology, which the company’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, says could eventually cut the cost of spaceflight by a factor of 100 and perhaps make Mars colonization economically feasible. [SpaceX’s Quest For Rocketry’s Holy Grail: Exclusive Video]
A photo of the “autonomous spaceport drone ship” on which SpaceX will attempt
Credit: Elon Musk/SpaceX
Musk shared photos of the Falcon 9 and landing platform via Twitter late last month, ratcheting up interest in the cargo mission, the fifth of 12 unmanned resupply flights SpaceX will make to the space station for NASA under a $1.6 billion contract. Read the rest of this entry »
SpaceX Rocket Blows Up During Test Flight
Posted: August 22, 2014 Filed under: Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Falcon, Flight test, Houston, McGregor, McGregor Texas, Rocket, SpaceX, Texas 1 Comment
MCGREGOR, Texas (AP) — An unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after launch on a test flight at the company’s Central Texas development site.
A SpaceX statement said nobody was injured in the Friday afternoon explosion at its test site in McGregor, Texas, 23 miles southeast of Waco.
In a statement, SpaceX spokesman John Taylor says the test flight involved a three-engine version of its reusable Falcon 9 rocket. He said an “anomaly” was detected in the rocket and it automatically self-destructed…(read more)
Amazing Shot [VIDEO] Grasshopper 744m Test – Single Camera (Hexacopter)
Posted: October 12, 2013 Filed under: Space & Aviation | Tags: Earth, Falcon 9, Grasshopper, Merlin, Rocket, SpaceX, VTVL, YouTube 1 CommentOn Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744m altitude. The view above is taken from a single camera hexacopter, getting closer to the stage than in any previous flight.
Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up on atmosphere reentry, SpaceX rockets are being designed not only to withstand reentry, but also to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing. The Grasshopper VTVL vehicle represents a critical step towards this goal.
Grasshopper consists of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage tank, Merlin 1D engine, four steel and aluminum landing legs with hydraulic dampers, and a steel support structure.
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