America
Space Travel
For the first time in decades there is no rocket certified for human spaceflight available anywhere on planet Earth. To make things a little more interesting the astronauts on the ISS have only a Soyuz [more…]
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20th Century
Space Travel
It was the early evening of January 27th 1967. Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been in the Apollo capsule for six and a half hours conducting a full scale dress rehearsal of [more…]
Engineering
Space Travel
It is the 7th May 1945 and on this spring morning in the Bavarian mountains, a few days after the death of Hitler, the soldiers of the 44th infantry division that are manning a checkpoint [more…]
Engineering
Space Travel
There are lots of technical problems in designing a liquid fuelled rocket; such as how do you light it, relight it, how do you stop combustion instability shaking the rocket to pieces, how do you [more…]
Engineering
Space Travel
There are lots of weird and wonderful schemes for powering spacecraft, but in practice only three classes of engine have been built today that could realistically power a spacecraft in the next few decades. (aside: [more…]
Engineering
Space Travel
For those of us interested in space travel however we live in interesting times; as there is probably more development going on in the world today than at any time since NASA was spending an [more…]