Apollo 13. Everyone knows the story. Damaged by an explosion on the way to the moon in 1970, the three astronauts and the folks at NASA pulled out every stop to get them home in their crippled spacecraft. Using the
ISS Comes Together
Building anything can be a complicated task. Building big doesn’t always make it easier. Building big in space definitely makes it more complex. USAToday has a dandy flash presentation on the 10+ year construction effort to build the International Space
Masten’s Xombie Makes Hop
XA-0.1-B (Xombie) boosted hop to 1,047′ “Masten Space Systems flew Xombie to its highest altitude yet! All systems functioned well. Xombie landed within roughly 3″ of its take off point. A special thank you to the Friends of Amateur Rocketry
Jet-A From Biomass
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has developed a highly efficient, environmentally friendly process that selectively converts gamma-valerolactone, a biomass derivative, into the chemical equivalent of jet fuel. The simple process preserves about 95 percent of the energy from