Seeing the Aurora Borealis is definitely on my bucket list, but I haven’t really thought of another good reason to travel into the arctic. Until such a reason presents itself, the video below will have to suffice. It’s visuals and soundtrack are stunning – and watching in high definition from the warmth and convenience of the TechClicker office is [...]
High resolution video footage from the depths of space rarely finds an uninterested audience, especially when that audience consists of technology enthusiasts. NASA’s compilations of space shuttle launches and photos from the Hubble Space Telescope continue to capture our imaginations no matter how often they’re viewed. So when this amazing assemblage of imagery from NASA’s Cassini [...]
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Tags: Cassini, Hubble, NASA, Outside In, Saturn, space 
No Comments »Since the dawn of manned space flight more than 50 years ago, the most tense moment of any mission occurs while the spacecraft re-enters Earth’s atmosphere. Travelling at speeds exceeding 17,000mph during atmospheric re-entry, a spacecraft must dissipate the enormous amount of kinetic energy accumulated to achieve a stable orbit around the Earth. [...]
Posted in Military, Science, Space, Technology Tags: communications, NASA, plasma, radio communications, re-entry, space, space flight, spacecraft, SpaceX No Comments »We’ll miss the Space Shuttle when it finally enters retirement sometime next year. And although the private sector, namely Elon Musk’s SpaceX Corporation, seems poised to pick up where NASA and the shuttle program leave off, there’s something special about the enormity and complexity of NASA’s space transportation projects. The shuttle exemplifies this, and with [...]
