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Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Toby Jorrin |
New Earthbound Telescopes Will Be Hundreds of Times Sharper Than Hubble The $45 million array of telescopes will reveal enlightening details of stars and black holes.   |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
NASA's Robot Winnebago to Walk & Roll on Lunar Surface What kind of ride would you want for a lunar road trip? NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing a hardy robotic vehicle that could serve as an all-purpose hauler for explorers. |
Science News
October 10, 2008
Tom Siegfried |
Book Review: The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking To Make The World Safe For Quantum Mechanics By Leonard Susskind The deepest issues are treated conversationally and accessibly, recounting efforts to persuade the physics community to appreciate the crisis that Stephen Hawking's work on black holes created. |
Popular Mechanics
October 9, 2008
Thomas D. Jones |
Why the World Needs Asteroid Insurance: Resident Astronaut Meteors, or bolides, strike Earth routinely, part of the hundred tons or so of cosmic debris that rain down on us every day. We orbit the Sun in a cosmic shooting gallery |
Popular Mechanics
October 9, 2008
Karen Fox |
How To Build a Dobsonian Telescope: DIY Astronomy Project The actual construction took a weekend, and it would be a great project to tackle with kids. |
Outside
October 2008
Ryan Krogh |
Space Shots This month, NASA astronaut and mountaineer John Grunsfeld, will blast into orbit carrying a camera that belonged to his friend Bradford Washburn, pioneer of aerial photography and Alaskan mountaineering. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Wesson & Anderson |
The Gravity Probe B Bailout Perhaps the most sophisticated satellite ever flown was nearly doomed by a tiny error, and NASA planned to end the experiment. But with a little creative fund-raising, the project may have bought enough time to prove its worth |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
NASA Upgrades Voice and Data Systems The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington has upgraded its data handling and communications systems with some of the latest technology innovations, including voice-over-IP (VoIP). |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Weaker Solar Wind Won't Slow Global Warming, May Threaten Astronauts If a spacecraft keeps chugging along for long enough, eventually it may find something startling. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Vince Beiser |
Use Big Robots -- and Big Rockets Carolyn Porco has been criticizing the space program's shuttle-centric approach for years, and now the agency is finally listening to her. Here are points she would make if she were granted an audience with the president. |
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