At 06:37pm EST on August 8th, 2007, Space Shuttle Endeavour lither fires and lifted off, headed for the cosmos for a rendezvous with the ISS on its planned 11 day mission to provide supplies and deliver scientific experiments in the SPACEHAB logistics module. Led by commander Scott Kelly, Endeavour’s launch provided me with...
read moreI’m sitting in the Las Vegas McCarran airport, waiting for my connecting flight to Orlando — enroute to Titusville for tomorrow’s Space Shuttle launch. I was informed this morning as I was leaving the house that we’re looking at an 80% chance for launch. My insider at NASA says that that’s about the...
read moreScientists at MIT, specifically Dr. Daniel G. Nocera, have announced a major breakthrough, not in energy production per se, but in energy storage. They describe the process as having “captured the essence” of plants’ energy storage system. This advancement may very well prove to be the bridge between current solar...
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