Month: April 2017

A Stitch in Time

If you are trying to build a time machine, don’t bother: even if we can design them, the universe makes it impossible for us (or anyone) to build them.

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Up, Up and Away…

Balloon science is an often-neglected older cousin of rocket science and NASA’s primary goal with this launch is to test a better balloon

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Actually, This Is Rocket Science

But despite being commonplace, spaceflight is still far from routine. In fact, in the six decades since the Soviet Union started the space race, just eleven nations and the European Union have achieved indigenous launch capability, sending a locally developed rocket into orbit.

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