Space historian David S. F. Portree writes about the North American X-15 and what lessons can be learned from its reusability : The X-15 Rocket Plane: Implications for Reusable Booster Schedule & Cost (1966) – Wired Science/Wired.com.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Video: Time-Lapse | Earth by Bruce W. Berry
Here’s a very beautifully made time-lapse video composition of ISS imagery by Bruce W. Berry Jr of Bruce Wayne Photography.
(Item via UniverseToday.com,)
Canadians sing along with Chris Hadfield on Music Monday
The organization Music Monday arranges for a simultaneous music celebration across Canada on the first Monday of May. This year they arranged for everyone to sing the “I.S.S.” song along with a Canadian astronaut in space:
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 35 Commander and musician Chris Hadfield picked up his Larrivée guitar and joined a national Canadian music celebration called “Music Monday”. This year, Hadfield was chosen to play the song “I.S.S.” co-written with Ed Robertson, the lead singer from the group “Barenaked Ladies.”The song is expected to be included on an album Hadfield recorded on orbit in his spare time.
Here is the debut of the song “I.S.S.” back in February with Chris Hadfield on the station and the Barenaked Ladies plus a children’s choir on earth:
Sci-Tech: Terrafugia announces VTVL roadable flying car project
The company Terrafugia has been developing the Transition® roadable airplane for several years and has flown a prototype. It should finally go to market within a year or so. Today the company announced plans for a second generation personal flying vehicle called the TF-X™, which will take-off and land vertically and still be drivable on roads.
- Terrafugia Shares TF-X™ Vision – Terrafugia – May.6.13
- Terrafugia Unveils New TF-X Project, Talks Future of Flying Cars | Xconomy
Here’s a video of the design:
Copenhagen Suborbitals: Launch escape system wind tunnel tests
Kristian von Bengtson of Copenhagen Suborbitals reports on their wind tunnel tests of the scale model of the Tycho capsule II with the launch escape system attached: Finally – the Astronaut Won’t Die Getting Saved – Wired Science/Wired.com