'Technology' Category
The scientific tourist #115 — meeting the Surveyor
This week’s image is a scan of a photograph of an engineering model Surveyor lunar lander at JPL…
The scientific tourist #114 — The Avro Arrow
Yes, it’s only a model (at the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia) of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow…
The scientific tourist #112 — Horten hears a… B-2?
While the B-2 bomber is an impressive looking piece of gear, not that many people realize that the technology of flying wings goes back to the Horten brothers in Germany in the 1930’s…
Casual Friday — No, you really can’t believe your eyes
Not when you’re watching TV at any rate…
The scientific tourist #111 — ejection seats
At the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim north of Munich, a line-up of ejection seats from both sides of the cold war…
Casual Friday — Robonaut 2: this *is* the droid you’re looking for…
Well, so the future of the U.S. manned space program is up in the air right now — one thing’s for sure, though. The future’s going to need a lot more robots…
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…
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
The scientific tourist #106 — the Ford Trimotor
This week’s image is of a Ford Trimotor at the San Diego Air & Space Museum…
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…
