News with "Commercial Space Articles" as a topic
On Tuesday, May 4th, the second annual New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch will be held at Spaceport America. On Thursday, May 6th, the Orion Pad Abort Test will be conducted at White Sands Missile Range.
The SL4 rocket built for the student launch is a sounding rocket, technology that has been around since the 1950s and is used to conduct experiments in the atmosphere. The technology used in the Pad Abort Test is a technical ...
Testing - I've been thinking about that this week. There's a lot of it going on here in Las Cruces. It was finals week at New Mexico State University. And as I write this, lots of my friends are grading exams, reading final project papers and making critical decisions - nope not about students, but about themselves. Right.
Testing can be a way for the tester to learn how well they did by looking at the ...
Have you noticed the International Space Station in the western sky just after sunset? The space station has been pretty bright especially the last 12 days with the orbiter Atlantis attached to it. If you go out just after sunset, it is the brightest object in the sky, and is the width of about two hands above the horizon. So, what are they doing up there on the space station?
The recent mission for the astronauts ...
When Francis Scott Key wrote our National Anthem during a battle between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1814, he was close enough to hear and see the rockets landing. Congreve rockets were fired against Ft. McHenry in 1814 and motivated the famous "rocket's red glare" line in our National Anthem. The Congreve rocket used gun powder and an iron case - today it would be called a solid-fuel rocket. Solid-fuel rockets are now commonly ...
Most of us are fascinated by the stars but "space" well that's a different deal. What's space- isn't it all around us?
Well for the purpose of this column, air is all around us, space is 62 miles straight up. If a vehicle wants to get to space it travels through air, or the atmosphere, then gets to space where there is no atmosphere.
I agreed to write a column on "space" for the Sun News. Not ...
