https://youtu.be/rJZpSuI7_1E This is a short video since I've been working hard on several projects at once. But it's FINALLY looking like an actual... something. I'm doing these videos really to highlight that regular people can do things that most people don't think is possible, or too hard. With time and effort, the drive to learn,... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avT5VjrtyFY After months of sitting on my hands, my Zenith 750 Cruzer fuselage finally arrived! As you can see... some assembly required. This first one is an experiment in equipment, getting into the habit and flow of filming myself (which adds some time and energy into the airplane build), and I want to outline some... Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Kentucky Space. Follow them: @KySpace or via their Facebook page. As the guy responsible for social media at Kentucky Space, I've long been interested in media-and-space, and enjoy using the new social tools and iPhone and Android-based phone applications that make the vacuum just a little more accessible. For example, follow @twisst... Continue Reading →
I originally wrote and published this on The Launch Pad The Google Lunar X PRIZE may seem like a simple tech competition. Except that it's not. GLXP is a human story. It's about ambition, overcoming disappointment, and hard work. It's about dreaming something big and then setting out to do it. Think for a second... Continue Reading →
What if: We had not landed on the moon in 1969, but given up after the fire on Apollo 11? We had skipped the space shuttle and built a moon base? A Mars Base? President Kennedy had not decisively called us to action in 1962 to go to the moon? We never invented Tang? (which... Continue Reading →
In elementary school, you were probably taught that photosynthesis is the basis of maintaining life on Earth. The sun shines on green plants. Those plants suck up the sun and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and grow, "exhaling" oxygen. Animal life then eats those plants and inhales that oxygen for its own survival. Some of... Continue Reading →
This has been widely twittered in the last 24 hours but is worth mentioning. Space.com has an interesting video on the possibility of a warp drive and how it might work. View the video here. Marc Millis, former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, explains how physicists approach the intriguing possibility of faster-than-light travel.... Continue Reading →
