Posts Tagged ‘Space’
Welcome to Vocab Lesson, Gizmodo’s new weekly column on words—the ones you’ve heard, but can’t quite define, or the ones you haven’t, but might like to hear about. This week’s lesson: Th…
Today we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Echo 1, history’s first passive satellite. NASA’s Echo mission began rather poorly. A test launch had exploded so brightly, so spectacularly, that it…
The iconic NASA spacesuit didn’t show up in astronauts’ closets fully formed. Here, a small sampling of the many precursors held with reverence at the Smithsonian Museum. More »
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What was my Lifechanger? Hmmmm…iPhone? iPad? Macbook Pro? Let’s dig back a little deeper…Airplane? The1MB original-style Mac (with external 20 MB hard disk), on which I wrote my Ph.D. th…
The UK government has launched a UK Space Agency dedicated to coordinating the government’s involvement in civilian spaceflight, with responsibility for looking after policy and budgets. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK