News with "Commercial spaceflight" 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 ...
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 ...
"Telstar" was the first song I ever hear that was a "Space" song. The record was named after the AT&T communications satellite Telstar, which went into orbit in July 1962. The song was released five weeks later on 17 August 1962. "Telstar" is estimated to have sold at least five million copies worldwide.
As I found on Wikipedia, this novelty record was intended to evoke the dawn of the space age, complete with sound ...
Topics: Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, NASA, NASA, NASA, NASA, Sam Durrance, University of Texas in Galveston, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Astronauts, Space, Zero gravity
On a recent trip to the University of Texas in Galveston, I visited a laboratory focused on studying the effects of spaceflight on humans. This laboratory, which looks like a typical hospital floor with beds and nurses stations is at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). Most of us who have followed the space program, and even those who ...
Topics: Commercial Space Articles, SpaceX, SpaceX Dragon , Hayabusa, Commercial spaceflight
I am in El Paso at the Texas Medical Branch hospital. I have a hand injury from gardening and was referred to a doctor in El Paso. I went to Google Maps, got the directions and called the doctor's office to make sure of the route. I got lost. Both sets of directions had the same flaw - wrong freeway exit, and each had conflicting instructions. I drove myself so I was able to course ...
