'Space' Category
Carnivalia — 1/20 – 1/26
The past week’s selection of science-related blog carnivals…
Casual Friday — meet “Space Shuttle Jr.”
One of the longest-running sagas in the space age has been the quest for a practical, reuseable space plane…
Carnivalia — 1/13 – 1/19
The past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals…
Carnivalia — 1/06 – 1/12
The past week’s crop of science-related blog carnivals…
The scientific tourist #107 — the F-1 rocket engine
The F-1 rocket engine was built to power the first stage of the Saturn V for Apollo, and still holds the crown of being the most powerful single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine ever built, so I thought I’d gather up a collection of pictures I’ve taken of F-1s in various places on my travels
Carnivalia — 12/30/09 – 01/05/10
January brings a huge batch of science-related blog carnivals for the new year…
Casual Friday — taking a peek into MIRI’s secrets
Come 2014 (if a few bothersome issues can be worked out), the Webb space telescope will be launched on its mission to peer far back into the history of the universe, using infrared light. Here’s a quick bit of video on the MIRI (Mid InfraRed Instrument) detectors that will play a big part in the mission…
Casual Friday — the Known Universe, in HD
Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History comes this video taking you to the end of the known universe and back again…
Carnivalia — 12/09 – 12/15
The past week’s crop of science-related blog carnival goodness…
Scientific tourist #103 — Explorer 10
For this week’s science-related travel image, we’re going back to the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamagordo. The picture is of a life-size model of the Explorer 10 spacecraft…
