Articles tagged with: space
Ten ways space travel isn’t like television or the movies
10. There is no sound in space (rumbling engines, electronic beeping, laser blasts, etc.)
You’ve probably heard this fact stated before by your high school science teacher or some killjoy walking out of a movie theater: …
Dark power: Grand designs for interstellar travel
“Space is big,” wrote Douglas Adams in his book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.”
He wasn’t exaggerating. Even our nearest star Proxima Centauri is …
U.S. shoots for the Moon, this time to stay
Say this for the U.S. space program: we may have spent the past 40 years mostly ignoring the moon, but when we go back, we go back with a bang. Later today — if weather …
