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Popular Mechanics May 8, 2009 Tyghe Trimble |
4 Science Lessons from the New Star Trek Movie What science lessons can be learned from the scene of a young Captain Kirk riding a Corvette off a cliff A little bit about inertia, and some more about stunt driving. |
Popular Mechanics May 7, 2009 Mark Anderson |
When Comets Attack: Solving the Mystery of the Biggest Natural Explosion in Modern History Scientists today think a small fragment of a comet or asteroid caused the "Tunguska event," so named for the Tunguska river in Siberia. |
Popular Mechanics April 27, 2009 Davin Coburn |
Rocket Record: The Largest, Heaviest Amateur Rocket Ever Launched Steve Eves broke two world records Saturday, when his 36-ft tall, 1,648 lb rocket was the largest and heaviest amateur rocket ever launched and recovered successfully. |
Wired Sarah Douglas |
3 Weird Things About the Moon Three small unknown facts about the moon. |
Popular Mechanics April 14, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
Questions for Duncan Jones, Director of the Film Moon (With Video!) Where did he get the idea for Moon?... Did he build an actual GERTY robot? Did he base his mining technique on any real-life earth technology?... etc. |
National Defense May 2009 Robert H. Williams |
Carbon Film Enhances Space Probe Diamond like carbon films that were developed at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are being used on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer to help determine how solar wind interacts with the matter that exists between stars. |
Popular Mechanics April 7, 2009 Garriott & Garriott |
Experiments in Space: Richard and Owen Garriott on How Private Space Flights Can Advance Important Science Like astronauts, Richard was involved with scientific research, in collaboration with state agencies including NASA, the European Space Agency and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, as well as nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Anatoly Zak |
Russia to Delay Martian Moon Mission Two-year setback seen as a blow to Russian space program's world standing |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009 |
CCD Image Sensors From e2v Launched Aboard NASA Kepler Star-Monitoring Spacecraft Engineers at e2v Technologies are providing the CCD imaging sensor for the NASA Kepler spacecraft to monitor stars in Earth's galaxy. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009 |
Orbital Sciences Chooses EaglePicher Lithium-Ion Batteries for French Satellite The 18-cell lithium-ion batteries from EaglePicher will primarily power the AMC-21 satellite during eclipse cycles. |
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