(Recently declassified USAF documents detail “Project 1794”, an attempt by the Air Force to build a flying saucer with a top speed of Mach 4 and a range of 4,000 nautical miles)
Posts tagged "science"
“Horse of Steel Runs Across Fields”
Popular Science, April 1933.
“Legged Squad Support System (LS3)”
DARPA Tactical Technology Office, 2012.
The Hubble Extreme Deep Field, an updated version of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
There are over 5,500 galaxies in this image; almost everything you can see is a galaxy. Click for a high-res version.
Zeta Ophiuchi, a supergiant that is twenty times the mass of the Sun and about 450 light years away. It is a runaway star, racing through space at 54,000 miles per hour; a bow shock is visible, formed in the dust and gas in its path, caused by the stellar wind from the star.
Stephan’s Quintet, a group of interacting galaxies 280 million light-years away from us. Imaged using the 1-meter telescope at the MacDonald Observatory in Texas.
The wheels of the Curiosity rover covered in Martian dust. Image taken by Curiosity’s MAHLI instrument.
Staff security badges from Los Alamos, used during Project Y; Los Alamos has a large number of these available online.
Oppenheimer and Feynman are shown above, along with Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, the Army officer who oversaw the project. Also shown are atomic spies Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, both of whom supplied information to the USSR.
May 6, 1968: in this video, Neil Armstrong is flying the lunar lander research vehicle (LLRV) when the device experienced a total failure of its flight controls. Armstrong had to bail out seconds before the vehicle crashed and exploded.
He was back in his office an hour later.
Via the Smithsonian Air & Space blog by way of Boing Boing.
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