Tags Results for 'nasa'

Kinect sensor wants to guess astronauts' weight, tell them to hit the space gym - (Tuesday 27th of December 2011 09:48:00 PM)

How do you weigh homegrown when there's no gravity keeping you down? Well, you can calculate
your mass by sitting on an oscillating spring and comparing its fixed frequency to your riding
frequency (NASA's current method), or you could rig up a Kinect  [...]

Inhabitat's Week in Green: hydrogen fuel cell-powered laptop, hybrid buses and bioluminescent bacteria - (Monday 26th of December 2011 12:00:00 AM)

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and
clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. The news service were buzzing with
different energy developing this week as Inhabitat reported that Apple  [...]

Lockheed Martin shows us how it's getting Orion ready to explore the cosmos - (Friday 02nd of December 2011 05:49:00 PM)

It's not every day that America designs an entirely new spacecraft. Rarer still is the
institution of a vehicle that can carry man, not just machine, beyond the earth's gravitational
pull. In the history of the world, there have been only eight such  [...]

NASA's solar-powered Juno mission heads to Jupiter today, Orbiter finds water on Mars? (video) - (Friday 05th of August 2011 12:27:00 PM)

NASA's Juno mission has been beset by delays for a while now, but the solar-powered
excursion is finally directed to take off for Jupiter today, in the hopes of making history.
overall the course of its schedule journey, the "armored tank" spacecraft  [...]

Inhabitat's Week in Green: hydrogen-powered space plane, Japan's solar surge and urban farms of Ze Future - (Monday 30th of May 2011 02:00:00 AM)

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green escalation and clean
tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Green transportation took off for the stars
this week as Inhabitat reported that the italic speech Space  [...]

NASA concludes Gravity Probe B space-time experiment, proves Einstein really was a genius - (Friday 06th of May 2011 12:29:00 PM)

Well, it looks like Einstein knew what he was talking about, after all. Earlier this week,
researchers at NASA and binet-simon test released the findings from their six-year Gravity
Probe B (GP- mission, launched to test Einstein's general theory of  [...]

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