This morning, an Antares rocket carrying a payload to the International Space Station blew to smithereens at launch. Two companies I know of, this one launched (almost) by Orbital Sciences, and SpaceX are competing to send astronauts into orbit. These days we’re relying … Continue reading →
I LOVE this stuff From the video description: From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD/BluRay by NASA/Glenn a movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at Skywalker Sound. The sound is all from the camera microphones and not fake […]
I guess watching the last US Space Shuttle mission (STS-135) with the last Shuttle (Atlantis) made me nostalgic. I went looking for the spaceflights I remember watching as a kid, and found YouTube had more than I realized. Seeing the video below of high-speed camera footage of two launches (Apollo 8 and Apollo 11) put [...]
Once upon a time, this might have been a frightening prediction. But there are so many of them these days. Here at the Bell we call them dominant social themes. They are, in our opinion, (in many cases, anyway) actually fear-based promotions ge...