Tag: NASA
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions [Review]
port1080.
Posted to SciTech on Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 11:26:42 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the US space program, NASA and the Discovery Channel recently released a new 6 part documentary chronicling the history of American space flight, from the early Mercury missions right up to the present. The documentary revisits many iconic images, but also contains much footage from the NASA archives that is being shown for the first time.
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Kick The Ass Of That Asteroid Before It Kicks Ours
MayorBob.
Posted to SciTech on Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 03:02:03 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Among cataclysmic predictions for how life, as we know it, will end on Earth, asteroid strikes rank right up there with super viruses, thermonuclear wars, and the rapture. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is ill-equipped to fight viruses, control nuclear arms, and intervene with supreme deities. Thus, their area of interest is in the matter of asteroids or any other extraterrestrial object colliding with the Earth. Although it seems like the plot of a Hollywood movie, NASA is looking at plans to send humans in space ships to knock asteroids off a collision course with Earth.
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