When (If?) NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) lifts off tomorrow, there will be a spectacular show of multiple rocket engines getting it off the pad. The most obvious will be the solid rocket boosters strapped to the side of the…
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A Really Big Rocket
A power lifting record more than fifty years old is soon to be broken. No, I’m not talking about barbells and grunting strong men. The mighty Saturn V is about to be dethroned as the world’s most powerful rocket ever…
Astronomy in 2011
(This post has been edited slightly from the original to include the MESSENGER mission to Mercury and to correct a misstatement about galactic black holes.) As the end of calendar year 2011 approaches, I thought my readers might enjoy a look…
Tagged with: black holes, Dawn, Exoplanets, Kepler, Mars, SN 2011fe, space launch system, space shuttle, spaceship two, Vesta
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