
How do you navigate in space, where there is no land or sea below you, no up or down, and only a black and star-spangled sky in every direction? We rightly celebrate the achievements of the nine Apollo missions that…
How do you navigate in space, where there is no land or sea below you, no up or down, and only a black and star-spangled sky in every direction? We rightly celebrate the achievements of the nine Apollo missions that…
A few months ago, I posted here about a proposed mission that would fly an eight-rotor copter in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. That mission has been given the go-ahead, but the complexities of designing, building, and testing…