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  • Rockets, Videos / May 15, 2018

    Why is NASA so Slow ?

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  • Planes, Videos / January 2, 2020

    What Happened to the Soviet Supersonic Jump Jets?

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  • Vehicles, Videos / September 9, 2017

    What Happened to the Giant Hovercraft SR-N4? – The Concorde of the Seas

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    Proximity Fuze – The 3rd Most Crucial Development of WW2

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What Has NASA Done Ever for Us – The CMOS Image Sensor

In Technology, Videos by Paul Shillito18th December 2021Leave a Comment

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Alright, apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, road, the fresh water and public health, what have the romans ever done for us. Much like the Monty Python scene from Life of Brian, some might well say What has NASA ever done for us? NASA is …

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Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes, the story so far…

In SpaceCraft, Videos by Paul Shillito30th November 2021Leave a Comment

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After 40 million man-hours of work, huge cost overruns and delays which have made the length of time from inception to launch longer than the entire moon program including Mercury and Gemini and Apollo, the James Webb space telescope is almost ready to launch. But even at the last minute, …

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How AI is Taking over your Phone

In A.I., Computers, Videos by Paul Shillito20th November 2021Leave a Comment

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If you’ve bought a new smartphone in the last couple of years you may well have noticed that it’s quite a bit smarter and more capable than models of just a few years earlier. Now some might put it down to the CPUs, memory and general computer hardware becoming faster …

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TV From The Moon – Apollo’s Live TV Cameras

In Moon, Technology, Videos by Paul Shillito25th October 2021Leave a Comment

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The fateful first steps of Neil Armstrong on to the lunar surface and his immortal words, “That’s One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” was broadcast to a worldwide audience of about 600 million and yet it was touch and go as to whether it would be …

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What They Really Had Planned for Apollo

In Moon, SpaceCraft by Paul Shillito25th October 2021Leave a Comment

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We all know what the major goal of the Apollo program was, to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s basically to beat the Soviets and prove that the capitalist system was better than the communist one. But once that’s done what would happen the …

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MOSFET – The Most significant invention of the 20th Century

In Computers, Technology, Videos by Paul Shillito25th October 2021Leave a Comment

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What makes a truly world-changing invention?. There are many contenders for the most significant invention of the 20th century, the jet engine, the airplane, television, the internet, the computer and antibiotics are all worthy contenders but unless you live like an 15th-century hermit or a part of an undiscovered tribe, …

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America’s Failed High Speed Tilting Train – The UAC Turbotrain

In Vehicles, Videos by Paul Shillito25th October 2021Leave a Comment

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Whilst the US doesn’t spring to mind when you think about high-speed rail, in the late 1960’s it was the first place along with Canada to have a advanced commercial high-speed tilting train service  Capable of 170 mph or 274km/h. It was powered by multiple gas turbine engines, built like …

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SkyLab – Maybe the Most Important Space Programs So Far.

In SpaceCraft, Videos by Paul Shillito25th October 2021Leave a Comment

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Think of a long term base in space and everyone thinks of the International Space Station which has been the longest and most successful space program so far. But the hard-learned lessons that have kept the ISS continuously manned for over 20 years came from our very first attempt to …

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How NASA’s New Spacesuit Could Stall the 2024 Artemis Moon Landings.

In Moon, Space, SpaceCraft, Videos by Paul Shillito20th August 2021Leave a Comment

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They are as important as the rockets the astronauts fly in and a miracle of materials and clothing engineering. Without them, we would not have been able to walk on the moon but the current generation of spacesuit’s or Extravehicular Mobility Units which were designed in the late 1970s are …

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How Did Apollo Avoid a Radiation Disaster?

In Space, SpaceCraft, Videos by Paul Shillito12th August 2021Leave a Comment

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Niel Armstrong, the first man on the moon said the thing he feared the most about the Apollo 11 mission was a solar flare, this solar weather is a much an issue for the upcoming Artemis program in 2024 as it was for the Apollo missions, in fact in August …

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