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- (NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)
- Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...
- Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- To the Moon: Grumman, One Giant Landing for Mankind
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Tags: Spacecraft, Aircraft, LEM, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-19
- To the Moon: The Integrators
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Images: NASA's Kepler to seek Earth-like planets
- A Friday evening launch will send the Kepler spacecraft out into the Milky Way on a mission to discover places that might support life as we know it. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-03-05
- Images: Mysterious aurora, mighty storms on Saturn
- Although the Cassini probe is working well past its scheduled retirement, the spacecraft is solving and revealing more secrets of the ringed planet. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-11-14
- Photos: Messenger returns to Mercury
- NASA's Messenger spacecraft makes second pass by Mercury as part of effort to slow down enough to orbit the barren planet in March 2011. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-10-07
- The invisible frontier of our solar system
- On October 19, NASA will launch a new spacecraft named IBEX, short for 'Interstellar Boundary Explorer.' Its mission, which will last about two years, is to refine what the Voyager spacecraft experienced in 2004 when 'an invisible shock formed as the solar wind piles up against the gas in interstellar...
- Tags: Earth, Spacecraft, NASA, Orbit, Solar System, IBEX, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- (Images: Phoenix Lander greeted by Mars spacecraft)
- (Images: Phoenix Lander greeted by Mars spacecraft)Images: Phoenix Lander greeted by Mars spacecraftHiHow much for a 600 sq yds plot ? Please book mine. Should be a corner plot.Peter Topno
- Tags: spacecraft, Phoenix Technologies
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Images: Saturn's beauty and the beast
- The Cassini spacecraft which has been exploring Saturn for almost four years, tracks an electrical storm which has been raging for months. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, CNET News.com, Ring, Saturn, It', Storm, Beauty
- Image galleries 2008-05-02
- Images: Organic material found in Saturn moon geyser
- Scientists surprised by what they found in samples taken by the Cassini spacecraft from a geyser plume spewed from the Saturn moon Enceladus. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, Sample, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-03-27
- Photos: That's one small step for SpaceShipTwo
- It's been redesigned, rehashed, and delayed. Richard Branson and Burt Rutan unveil mockups of their commercial spacecraft. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-01-23
- Images: Messenger nears close encounter with Mercury
- On Monday, NASA's Messenger spacecraft will be the first visitor to Mercury in almost 33 years. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-01-11
- Finding leaks in a spacecraft
- Finding leaks in a spacecraftOf courseyou could also just use a smoking match and watch where the smoke goes.Sometimes engineers really overwork the plumbing.
- Tags: spacecraft
- Discussion threads 2007-10-05
- Finding leaks in a spacecraft
- With financial support from NASA, Iowa State University ISU engineers have developed a sensor to quickly find leaks in a spacecraft. This sensor locates an air leak by listening to the noise generated by the air rushing out of the leak and includes an array of 64 elements that detects...
- Tags: Leak, Spacecraft, Iowa State University, NASA, Sensor, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Images: Orion spacecraft prepares for moon landing
- The Orion spacecraft, replacement for the space shuttle and the vehicle that will take astronauts back to the moon, will fly in 2008.
- Tags: ORION, spacecraft, shuttle, moon
- Image galleries 2007-08-02
- NASA to test-fly 'Orion' spacecraft next fall
- NASA to test-fly 'Orion' spacecraft next fallMisuse of a proud name for a space-going klugeMaybe it's a petty gripe, but I wish they'd called the thing something else. "Orion" will always be the name of the bold concept authored by Freeman Dyson and Ted Taylor in the late 1950s...
- Tags: ORION, spacecraft, NASA
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- A-OK The Wings of Mercury 3.8 (Windows)
- A-OK The Wings of Mercury is a realistic simulation of the Mercury spacecraft. It features 3D graphics, fully functional control panels, networked simulations, and a complete manual. Real-time trajectory modeling accurately simulates the dynamics of the space flight. 3D graphics simulate the cockpit, window and external views. Over 160 fully-operational...
- Tags: 3D, Spacecraft, Microsoft Windows, Apogee Development, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2007-08-01
- Images: A vision for an asteroid mission
- A private company in Santa Cruz, Calif., uses its 3D rendering technology to simulate a spacecraft landing on an asteroid.
- Tags: 3D rendering, Santa Cruz, asteroid, spacecraft, vision, 3D, California
- Image galleries 2007-07-30
- Photos: Asteroid hunters leaving/returning to Earth
- While NASA plans to launch its Dawn probe to visit two asteroids, a Japanese spacecraft, loaded with asteroid dirt, limps toward home.
- Tags: dirt, spacecraft, NASA, Earth, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-06-27
- Photos: New evidence of water on Mars
- Mars rover Spirit and the Mars Express spacecraft have found more clues that indicate the Red Planet was teeming with water.
- Tags: photograph, spacecraft
- Image galleries 2007-05-22
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