won’t someone think of the forgotten boomers, that hard working class that pulled up every ladder after they climbed it and told the next generation, “we got ours, tough shit for you guys.”
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And just like *that* I went from complete indifference about this Corvette to actually rooting for it and looking at my finances to see if I could afford one on my modest salary. I can’t. Yet. Read more

This image defeated Communism. Read more

iEl Pikachupacabra! Read more

Cernan is a rock star. For all of history.  Read more

Physicist - As beings living on Earth we all have to obey to the physics exerted onto us, such as gravity, angular moment, etc. Read more

Almost all the tech in cell phones came out of the US Space program. Read more

The trick is holding down the R button until the smoke clouds turn orange, then release for a power boost. Just make sure to dodge any banana peels on the track Read more

That though just blew me away.... so true. Read more

Steely eyed woman, thank you. Margret Hamilton discusses that exact incident in a recent interview. Read more

How did they make it work 50+ years ago when they were designing and building stuff? They over-engineered when possible to give slack in the design to account for unknowns. They controlled as much from the ground as possible, to make the flying systems as minimal as possible. They had ground teams with narrow but very… Read more

I hold an ME degree, and the amount of real engineering that those men/women did is absolutely incredible. Even just the drafting. Massive rooms filled with drafters doing things by hand with absolute precision. It is incredible how much of a crutch computers have given us. Need to calculate something? There’s an… Read more

“The last human on the Moon was Gene Cernan in 1972.”

I met Jim Lovell at a small book signing about 20 years ago. Really nice guy, and very humble about the achievements of him and the rest of the Apollo program. Read more

THIS. We should have been building a better Shuttle, surely we can do better than we did in 1978 with slide rules and punch cards.  Read more

What’s really interesting about all of this is that it reinforces the idea that mechanical engineering is becoming a dying art. While we have much better technology to assist in design, and much better access to information, you can’t cheat physics. I think really good mechanical engineers will become a much needed… Read more

The weird thing is how easy the US makes it look. We put feet on the moon with minimal computing power and now horribly antiquated technology. The fact that countries with very capable engineers and the power of the internet and ridiculously good computers can’t succeed reliably, is a testament both to the skill of… Read more

I don’t wanna brag, but I have a near 90% success rate of hitting the moon in Kerbal Space Program.  Read more

My wife was stunned when I told her that a Saturn V first stage engine was as wide as our living room, which is pretty big.  And that it had 5 of them. Read more