All the stories tagged with nasa
See Mercury in 3D
03/20/2011, Going to the cinemas these days offer us an option – to watch a movie in 3D or not? Well, NASA’s MESSENGER has started to orbit the planet at 01:45 CET, where this little transport that could will carry the [...]
NASA provides Superfocus glasses to older astronauts
03/02/2011, On board the recently launched space shuttle, Discovery, NASA provided some special glasses that were designed to help astronauts see better in space. Since the average age of a NASA astronaut is 48, many of them suffer from presbyopia – [...]
Watch the Discovery space shuttle launch on your PS3
02/24/2011, Despite being protected from hacking and modifications, the Sony PlayStation 3 is actually capable of doing other things besides playing games and surfing the web – it can even be used for education (depending on how educational you think a [...]
NASA releases 3D visuals of the Sun
02/09/2011, Ever wanted to know what the Sun is truly like? Well you’re in luck. No, you won’t get an opportunity to fly there, but we’ve got the next best thing – 3D images of the sun. NASA sent out two [...]
Robonaut 2 to make an appearance at Super Bowl XLV
02/03/2011, The infamous space robot, Robonaut 2, will be making an appearance at this year’s upcoming Super Bowl event (XLV). Created by General Motors and NASA, the robot will make a guest appearance with Fox Sports analyst Howie Long during a [...]
NASA releases Spinoff app for Android
01/17/2011, NASA has just released a new app for Android and it’s not the NASA HD App that’s been released on the iPad for awhile now. In case you didn’t know, NASA Spinoff is a publication that informs folks of all [...]
Passenger planes of the future
01/14/2011, NASA gave away contracts to three teams to come up with the perfect plane for the year 2025. The three teams had to design a plane that was silent, fuel efficient, can fly up to 85% of the speed of [...]
NASA wants to send scramjet spacecraft into space using a railgun
12/20/2010, Sending an object out into space is no joke, as it has to have enough escape velocity to escape the earth’s gravity pull. NASA has been sending monkeys and people to space for umpteen years now, and are always looking [...]
NASA Sells Off PCs Without Wiping Sensitive Data
12/08/2010, The folks over at NASA aren’t too happy to discover 10 cases where PCs were sold despite failing data removal procedures. Another four PCs which were about to be sold were found to contain data restricted under arms control rules. [...]
NASA works on solar shield to protect power grids in outer space
10/29/2010, We have gotten news that NASA is working on solar shields so that those can be used to offer protection to power grids that are in outer space. After all, solar storms are no small matter, being seen from as [...]
T-Shirt cannon spews out 200 t-shirts in a jiffy
10/28/2010, Forget Nerf guns – those are child’s play (literally) when it comes up face to face with this rather mean looking t-shirt cannon. Built by Team 254 Robotics of Bellarmine College Prepatory of San Jose, California, who had the assistance [...]
Purchase A NASA Robotic Hand On eBay For $18K
09/27/2010, Can’t get close enough to NASA to convince them to put you into space? Maybe you’d want to settle for a robotic hand complete with space glove from NASA instead. The Omni Hand 1 was originally designed and built in [...]
NASA Second Rocket Booster Test Went Well
08/31/2010, U.S. space agency NASA has concluded its second rocket booster test, and that test had gone well at the ATK facility in Utah. The second rocket booster is part of a give-segment motor, an upgrade from the four-segment booster that [...]
