The American Space Agency is offering free software to users of Apple’s mobile equipment. It works with both iPhone and iPod Touch (provided that you are connected to a local WiFi network). This “NASA App” is a kind of portal that assembles and classifies the agency’s official news (text, images and videos) as well has having a navigation system that highlights the touch screen ergonomics. Be careful, however, when the application starts up as it does not seem to be listing all of NASA’s missions. You have to open the “Filter” menu in the top right hand corner and check the categories that you want to follow (Earth, Moon and Mars, Launch, etc.) in order to refresh the list and make it more complete, possibly by selecting everything. Without this manipulation, a mission as significant as Hubble, for instance, is not even covered! Once this ergonomic “error” has been corrected, the “NASA App” is full of promise.
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Avatar’s Venture Star
The spaceship from James Cameron’s film is far less fanciful than it appears and even plausibly deals with several problems posed by interstellar travel.
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The Constellation story
Return to the Moon to take up where, way too soon, Apollo had stopped. Such was the ambition of the Constellation programme on the point of becoming a page in NASA’s history before it has even achieved its objective.
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Merry Christmas... in orbit!
Whether you believe it or not, Father Christmas does not forget astronauts despite the obvious lack of a chimney...
Tribute to Robert McCall |
Odourless space underwear |
STS-131: allusion to Armageddon |
50 years of satellite weather |
