| Old Articles: <Older 21-30 Newer> |
|---|
 |
Wired
October 2001 |
Verge To study how microgravity affects plant development, scientists are germinating about two dozen thale cress plants 250 miles above earth...   |
CIO
October 1, 2001
Lafe Low |
This Isn't Houston Talk about a long-distance call -- astronauts aboard the International Space Station orbiting miles above Earth are now phoning home. ISS astronauts use Cisco Systems SoftPhone software running on flight-approved laptops through a voice-over-IP system... |
Wired
August 2001 |
Verge An electrodynamic tether may have potential as a low-cost means of propelling spacecraft within Earth's orbit... |
Wired
August 2001
Craig Offman |
Terminal Velocity One pressure suit. One parachute. 130,000 feet. Two skydivers are racing to push the envelope of the stratosphere -- and survive smashing the sound barrier on their way back down to Earth... |
Wired
July 2001
Tom McNichol |
The New Red Menace Robert Zubrin has a grand plan to turn the fourth planet into humanity's new frontier - within the next 10 years! Welcome to hell on, um, Mars... |
Salon.com
June 29, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
We've got company Astronomer David Darling talks about the controversial science of astrobiology and the near-certainty that extraterrestrial life forms exist in our solar system... |
Wired
June 2001
Oliver Morton |
Shadow Science Looking for Earth-like planets outside the solar system? Bill Borucki's cheap little spacecraft can help you find a few hundred, fast... |
Science News
May 26, 2001 |
Cosmic Numerology Some history of scientists' attraction to special numbers and mathematic simplicity in physics and astronomy. |
Science News
May 19, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Cosmic Numerology Imbued with the same conviction of a natural order that drove Pythagoras and his followers to search for an underlying numerical harmony, Johannes Kepler maintained that the physical universe was laid out according to a mathematical design... |
Salon.com
April 28, 2001
Eric F. Lipton |
Hey, NASA, quit hoggin' space! It's time to share the universe. Dennis Tito ranks with John Glenn. He's a pioneer, leading the way in bringing space down to earth... |
| <Older 21-30 Newer> Return to current articles. |
