The Red Bull Space Jump Could Be A Model For Quietly Dropping Navy SEALs Into Enemy Territory

Now that everyone's over the initial awe that comes from watching someone do something as crazy as , it's time to find out what practical application can be had from it. That's easy: The military can use the technology to from really, really far away as DefenseTech explains. And the...

Apr 10, 2025

NASA Used To Throw The Best Pool Parties

Back in the days when NASA was in its infancy, its engineers and pilots tried lots of new things to see what worked and what didn't. Take this at what looks like a country club pool near the Cape Canaveral Space Center, for example. Pictured here, Command Pilot Virgil "Gus"...

Apr 10, 2025

These Are All The Spaceships Designed To Replace The Soyuz

Right before 2012 skidded to a halt last week, Russia's space agency's main contractor, , announced that they had completed designs for a the venerable , and they'd start test flights in 2017. For space geeks like me, this gave me the warm, welcome feeling of something . Familiar, and...

Apr 10, 2025

These Are All The Magical Things You Can Buy At NASA's Fire Sale

Last year, we taught you exactly should you find yourself inclined to do so. But a recent development at NASA has made it so that theft may not be necessary — now, you can just straight up buy their stuff if you want it. The Orlando Sentinel reports that NASA...

Apr 10, 2025

NASA Just Launched Landsat 8 Into Orbit

Since 1972, the has been beaming pictures of the Earth's surface down from outer space. Today, the eighth Landsat satellite was from , on California's Central Coast. Hurtling through the air at 1,700 mph when it lifted off, Landsat 8 was several miles above the ground within a matter of...

Apr 10, 2025

This Is What A Spy Plane Eye Chart Looks Like From The Air

There's a good chance that a surveillance satellite is taking pictures of your neighborhood right now, but you'll never know it's there. It's way too high above the Earth's surface to be seen by the naked eye. But there's that helped develop those satellites into the highly precise watching devices...

Apr 10, 2025

How Good Are Modern Spy Satellites?

Today we saw how just like you and me. How good are they, though? Yes, spy planes test their vision on eye charts, just like people and just like microscopes, as explained. But it was a point made by that really got us thinking. The really interesting part of all...

Apr 10, 2025

Curiosity Takes A Self-Portrait Panorama

While we were busy , was hanging out on Mars, taking this awesome selfie. NASA gives us this description on its fantastic series. This remarkableof NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover includes a sweeping panoramic view of its current location in the Yellowknife Bay region of the Red Planet's. The rover's flat,...

Apr 10, 2025

What’s The Most Bizarre Engineering Solution You’ve Seen?

You’ll forgive this open ended question, because I heard of some engineering today that will make your heart weep. Today I was by a proposed inflatable solar panel-powered vehicle designed to go to Neptune. says that he worked on this project and witnessed on particular engineering solution which blows my...

Apr 10, 2025

Elon Musk's SpaceX Just Launched A Capsule Into Orbit, But There's A Thruster Problem (Updated)

When he's not making electric cars, CEO Elon Musk's other venture is trying to privatize spaceflight. And his company, , took a big step in that direction this morning when they launched the Dragon capsule into orbit with the goal of bringing more than one ton of supplies and science...

Apr 10, 2025

The Other Firsts No One's Talking About For The Proposed 2018 Mars Flyby Mission

Remember ? He's the millionaire who became the first space tourist back in 2001, who bought himself a ticket on a Soyuz heading to the International Space Station. Now he's got some big new space plans: he wants to send in 2018. If he can pull it off, there's lots...

Apr 10, 2025

Send Porn Stars To Mars!

We were confronted with the idea of a . There's only one way to make this work and it involves porn stars. You see, the problem has nothing to do with biological concerns, or scientific ideals. The problem is the modern attention span, as reader explains. So lets establish the...

Apr 10, 2025

This Is The Best Actual Spaceship To Make Into A Car

You know how sometimes you get a really stupid idea in your head, and it won't just go away until you, somehow, act upon it? Not only is this the story behind 90% of swastika tattoos, but it's also the story behind this post you're reading right now. In this...

Apr 10, 2025

SpaceX Invents Giant Hovering Penis

Here we see Elon Musk's , shooting into the air, quivering up there in the heavens, then slowly coming down from its 80 meter climax. We should expect nothing less from the man who invented . ...

Apr 10, 2025

These Lada Niva/Russian Space Program Ad Parodies Are So Great

As much as I wish a) these were real ads b) they actually did send a Lada Niva with a roof-mounted cargo box to the Mir and c) there actually were Nivas here in the US, none of these things are true. Still, that doesn't make these parody ads from...

Apr 10, 2025