Media Event As a Various Science
One need not make any extensive surveys of different media to provide evidence for this failure. It is enough to see how sports has managed to gain more coverage in…
Satellites play chase to measure gravity, achieve picometer accuracy
Enlarge (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The spinoffs from gravitational wave detectors are not just new scientific discoveries. The technology also has other uses. A good example of this is the gravity-measuring mission,…
Christopher Columbus Kraft, NASA’s legendary flight director, has died
Chris Kraft, left, and Robert Gilruth monitor the launch of Apollo 5 in 1968. Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr.—one of NASA’s founding engineers, its first flight director, and a key architect…
With a launch and a hop coming up, SpaceX has a big week ahead
SpaceX has been assembling a Starship prototype in South Texas. This gallery highlights a recent static fire test. This is a big week for SpaceX, which has an important Falcon…
Silicon LED created by buzzing surface with high-speed electrons
Enlarge / If only controlling electron behavior was as easy as building atom illustrations out of children’s toys… (credit: Japatino / Getty Images) A long time ago, in a place…
India has launched an ambitious mission to the Moon
Enlarge / India’s GSLV Mark III rocket is seen on the launch pad with its lunar payload. (credit: ISRO) On Monday, an Indian rocket launched a spacecraft bound for the…
The Greatest Leap, part 6: After Apollo, NASA still searching for an encore
Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Click here for transcript. (video link) And then it was all over. After the drama of…