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Mass Supersonic Travel on the Horizon Again?

In three days’ time on January 12th, a project that’s overdue by only about 55 years will take flight. A NASA project by the name of QUESST, an acronym for quiet supersonic transport, will provide the first demonstration of a sonic boom-less flight. The aircraft that will cruise through the sound barrier with barely a […]

A Future for Our Planet. Requiem for Astronaut Mary Cleave

A woman 99.9% of us have never heard of, has just died. Yet what we owe her is incalculable. You see, NASA Shuttle Mission Specialist Mary Cleave didn’t use her time in orbit staring at the vast and hypnotic majesty of space. She focused her attention on the mess below her. Namely the human-triggered deterioration […]

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, How I Wonder What You Are

A Bit of Space Junk, Probably Sorry to ruin either a romantic evening or a school lesson in astronomy, but whenever you gaze in wonder up at the stars, you’re  also looking at thousands of tonnes of trash, just sort of hanging there about a thousand kilometres high. There are over 10,000 tonnes of rubbish […]

NASA Telescopes’ Imagery Should Stir Something Profound in all of Us

NASA telescopes’ imagery released this last week is visually stunning, technologically mind-blowing and spiritually, well, how can it not evoke questions of a religious, philosophical or scientific manner. The images are beautiful and reveal a universe which far exceeds the human eye’s capacity to see it. From our new vantage point, the majesty and scale […]

Has India just Democratized Moon Colonization?

Much of the media today are focusing on the fact that Chandrayaan-3’s successful touchdown on the moon cost about $90 million less than it cost to make the movie Interstellar. (Of course it cost less you unpatriotic flag burner, I can hear Americans shouting. Interstellar went to another galaxy!) Anyway, much of the media are […]