A 660 foot wide comet flies through the Sun and survives by Andrew Malcolm – Investors.com.
So cool the video has to be seen to be believed that little rock was MOVING!!
This is a link to a NASA site with even more info. Neat stuff.
A great reflective article, I have seen 2 launches both in Florida, one an Atlas the other a Delta, both commercial, both with hundreds of others, both indescribably moving because of the awesome symbolism as much as anything else.
Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | NASA decision increases risk in commercial crew program.
Congress short funded the commercial ISS crew/cargo program (by 1/2!!!!) the only good result being the continued use of cooperative agreement funding tools rather than the (potentially) more controlling fixed price contracts. Some concerns about delays and risks are very appropriate but it’s possible this not all bad. One of the comments pointed out that the senatorial launch system got funded as well and suggests a great solution, take some of the SLS money for CCL and then offer the big launcher requirement up to the eSpace competitors for solution on a commercial basis.
PCMag…very cool article on the movement, the ‘company,’ the machine and the process.
This fascinates me in all sorts of ways, reading their short history makes one see clearly how narrow is the viewpoint of many older nations. By the by from a layman’s viewpoint it certainly seems like the claim of sovereignty has some basis.
The history of Sealand is a story of a struggle for liberty. Sealand was founded on the principle that any group of people dissatisfied with the oppressive laws and restrictions of existing nation states may declare independence in any place not claimed to be under the jurisdiction of another sovereign entity. The location chosen was Roughs Tower, an island fortress created in World War II by Britain and subsequently abandoned to the jurisdiction of the High Seas. The independence of Sealand was upheld in a 1968 British court decision where the judge held that Roughs Tower stood in international waters and did not fall under the legal jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. This gave birth to Sealand’s national motto of E Mare Libertas, or “From the Sea, Freedom”.
Just found MachineDesign again and saw this tidbit.
A 3D printer still in the prototype stage targets kids age 10 and up. Called the Origo, the device first started to take shape as inventor Artur Tchoukanov’s Masters project while he was attending the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden. Today, Origo is both the name of the device and the company. The device is intended to let kids print their own custom toys or small items. The printer is said to be as easy to use as an Xbox or Wii.
Just for Kids? What’s that all about? I want one!
Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Private spaceflight gets new contender with Stratolaunch
Now that’s the ticket!
Neat little article. Heinlein’s starship troopers had these, but before that E.E.Doc Smiths lensmen series. And who can forget the ending of Aliens?
JSF – What's Really Happening.
This is enough to make one sigh and retreat to a cave. It seems like we have lost (in the big ticket arena) our ability to run a program.
This World and Others 