The YouTube channel “Found and Explained” just released a video on the 4,000 ton Orion Battleship, with the model used based on my reconstruction from issue V2N2 of “Aerospace Projects Review.” The video was sponsored by a “Star Trek” video game, so there are a *lot* of Star Trek references in the video. For more…
A Boeing concept from 1983 for an Orbital Transfer Vehicle. This vehicle would change the orbit of the payload not only propulsively, but by using aerodynamic drag to slow the vehicle at perigee. When returning a payload from geosynchronous orbit, it would dive into the upper atmosphere and use aerodynamic lift and drag to slow…
Russia accuses British Navy of blowing up Nord Stream gas pipelines in Baltic Sea What do you want to bet there’s a dart board in the Kremlin for making these sort of determinations? I will also accept Ouija board.
YouTube is filled to overflowing with “fan edits” of this or that movie, or fan-made videos showing spaceships from Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Gallactica, etc. The quality of these vary greatly. Lots are *terrible.* But every now and then, you get THIS: It’s a reworking of the “launch” scene from Star Trek…
Watch in amusement as these two witness “The Exorcist” for the first time. This is one of the most “Nope, I’m out” flicks ever made, and both recoiling in horror and laughing yourself fuzzy are appropriate and allowable responses.
Currently on ebay is an aluminum model of a lifting body. The rear of the vehicle is that of the M1 or M2, but the nose is distinctly conical. The lack of useful volume leads me to think that if this is a legit wind tunnel model (rather than something someone just knocked out at…
There are few facts as yet. Chief among the missing facts are the identity of the attacker and what his motives were. I suspect that those little details will determine if this becomes Big News or just sorta fades away. Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, attacked with hammer at home Option A,…
I honestly have no idea what the future of Twitter and other online sewers holds… other than some glorious chaos. Elon Musk fires Twitter’s top brass after closing $44 billion deal: reports A source with knowledge of the matter told FOX Business that Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of…
Further Third Worldification of American cities… You’d think they’d at least try to clean up the area around the White House. Maybe even try to mask the damage caused by the anti-Trump insurrectionists several years ago. Nope.
Russia warns West: We can target your commercial satellites Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy director of the Russian foreign ministry’s department for non-proliferation and arms control, told the United Nations that the United States and its allies were trying to use space to enforce Western dominance. “Quasi-civilian infrastructure may be a legitimate target for a retaliatory strike,”…
