Category: In The News
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One of my favorite reads was “THE SPACE TOURIST’S HANDBOOK” by Eric Anderson, who on April 8th, 2001, blasted off in a Soyuz rocket for an eight day ride to the ISS and became the 415 person to enter space and the first person to pay to get there. His account and advice are written…
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Talk to any rocket engineer and they will say, ‘you need a plane that looks like a rocket and not a rocket that looks like a plane’. If you subscribe to that way of thinking, then you have not read Moshe F. Rubinstrein’s – The Minding Organization: Bring the Future to the Present and Turn…
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Presented by the ESA: Very clever. Very talented. And very smart.
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I Here we are…. flying a helicopter on Mars, which is around 38+ million miles away from Earth, and getting both HD imagery as well as audio from another planet! Monday (May 10th) is a significant flight test for Ingenuity (yes… the Helicopter) where it will fly into a different airfield.
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It seems like only yesterday CURIOSITY landed on Mars, but that took place in 2012, August 6th at 05:17 UTC. I set my alarm and was up at 3:00 AM ET, listening to what seemed a live Sci-Fi broadcast, sitting on the edge of my seat, during the Seven Minutes Of Terror. But hearing that NASA…
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I started to think of what I would like for my birthday and the first thing that came to mind was–– How about something amazing going on in the world! I mean each and every day there are some amazing things happening in every corner, every industry, every trade and facet of our lives….. yet…
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Why now? I mean why would the Pentagon release and confirm the authenticity of these videos–granted, these were leaked back in 2017. I’m wondering if it has anything to do with our Alexa, just recently, starting to refer to us by name…. Good morning David…. Thank you Meredith… I had been waiting for that moment,…
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I was reading an article on BBC, “Are we living in Blade Runner World,”by David Barnett, about the 1982 flick directed by Ridley Scott, sparked by Philip K Dick’s 1968 novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” The article’s author goes on to explain that the depiction of LA (at the time of the movie)…
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In the Sunday (5/12/2019) NYT Obituary was homage paid to Llewellya W. Hillis (1930 – 2019) — a Canadian-American trailblazer for women in the field of Science and a rock star to me for her extensive contribution in Marine Biology with a specialty in macro-algae… yes… seaweed. Her bio is too impressive to cover here…
David Nadas 