You may well be forgiven for thinking that rockets which take off vertically and then land again vertically were a recent development by the likes of Blue Origin and SpaceX but a quick look back the history of rocketry and you’ll see that this technique is far from new and …
How The Real Soviet Rocketmen Changed the World
Its said that around 400,000 people worked on the Apollo project to land a man on the moon and apart from the astronauts themselves, how many people spring to mind when you think about the who designed and oversaw its construction and operation, With the exception of Werner Von Braun, …
Aerospike Engines – Why Aren’t We Using them Now?
Ever since the earliest rockets, we’ve seen them working with a bell-shaped nozzle from the First German V2 rockets right up to the SpaceX falcon heavy but their ubiquity doesn’t mean that they are the best way to do things, in fact, they have a major drawback which is one …
Why is NASA so Slow ?
Each generation reinvents space as the cosmic frontier: in the age of Gagarin and Shepard, test pilots grinned at the TV cameras to prove they were made from ‘The Right Stuff’. And in 2018 orbital space is becoming a playground for billionaire entrepreneurs, turning their childhood dreams into reality. In …
LIVE – The end of the Universe – with Ethan Siegel – REPLAY
In today’s live stream, we will be looking at the end of the universe with theoretical astrophysicist and science writer Ethan Siegel. Along the way we see how the knowledge that we have built up to come up with our best theory about the start of the universe could show …
Reusable Rockets & Flyback boosters
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVNIaC10MDg[/embedyt] One of the most impressive sights of recent years was the synchronised landing of the falcon heavy booster rockets, and although the centre core didn’t make it back simply because it didn’t have enough ignition fluid to restart all of the three of the centre cores engines …
LIVE – USO’s Unidentified Submerged Objects with Marc D’Antonio – Replay
In this live stream, we will be looking at USO’s or Unidentified Submerged Objects and what scientific explanations could be behind them. These could also be known as but technically incorrectly underwater UFO’s. These USO’s are objects which have been tracked by the world’s navies since the advent of modern …
What happened to the Ekranoplan? – The Caspian Sea Monster
In 1967, whilst the U.S’s first spy satellite ‘Corona’ was busy photographing the Soviet Union, something unusual was spotted. It looked like a massive plane, but its wings were too short, it also sported the Soviet Navy Flag on it fuselage, so what was it? Maybe an unfinished aircraft or …
LIVE – Why cant we see the Apollo sites from Earth with Marc D’Antonio – replay
Our 1st live steam where looked at a subject I have covered before of Why can’t we see the Apollo sites from Earth but this time with the help of astronomer Marc D’Antonio in more detail with viewer questions. Timestamped Sections Marc D’Antonio 0:34 Main topic start 2:15 Q&A start …
NASA’s Next Space Station LOP-G – was the Deep Space Gateway
Goodbye Deep space gateway, hello “LOP-G”, just in case you wondering what heck I’m going on about. This is the news that the next space station, the one to replace the ISS has had a bit of a Trumpian makeover and will now be called the “Lunar Orbital Platform – …