'History' Category
Casual Friday: Apollo 11 Saturn V launch
Courtesy of the fine folks at Spacecraft Films, here’s a raw clip of video from one of the launchpad cameras — showing the Apollo 11 launch, 41 years ago…
The scientific tourist #131 — Hawaiian petroglyphs
Ancient carvings in lava fields…
The scientific tourist #130 — Northrop N-1M
This week’s image is of a Northrop N-1M at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia…
The scientific tourist #129 — Sputnik 1, here, there, and very nearly everywhere!
Sputnik 1 may have been launched 50+ years ago, but it sure still gets around…
The scientific tourist #128 — the Sanger II space plane
This week’s image is a display model of a Sanger II space plane, on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany…
The scientific tourist #127 — Freedom 7 II
This week’s image comes to you from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy center — it’s of a Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom 7 II, and it’s got quite an involved history…
The scientific tourist #126 — the Arado Ar 234B
Now residing at the National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia — the Arado AR 234 Blitz…
Carnivalia — 5/19 – 5/25
The past week’s selection of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals…
The scientific tourist #125 — Lunar Orbiter
I’ve told you before about the ongoing effort to reprocess (and as a result, to enhance) old data tapes from the Lunar Orbiter program of 1966-1967. Well, if you were curious about what the original spacecraft looked like…
Casual Friday — a D.I.Y. Turing Machine
Compute anything that can be calculated — with some tape leader and a dry-erase marker…
