Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a 33-year-old paraplegic aerospace engineer from Germany, made history by becoming the first wheelchair user to travel to space on a Blue Origin suborbital flight. Benthaus, who was paralyzed…
Here's the new location of the chapter resources page which is now on the NSS Website And here's the look of the top of the page. Click the image to…
High-energy rechargeable batteries seemed impossible, until we made them. https://youtu.be/AGglJehON5g?si=Dsztg73Kua744KS7
This video describes a build of an Arduino Camera Device that takes stop motion videos. This is part of the Sacramento Balloon Device Project to fly and Arduino device on…
Using an Arduino Nano controller, here's how to connect an Arduino compatible ArduCam, and an SD Card to capture an correctly formatted jpeg image that can be displayed on a…
ABSTRACT Spacecraft propulsion by reflection of beamed particles or photons represents a highly efficient means of achieving high velocities for interstellar spacecraft because the reaction mass and energy source do…
He was trying to solve the three body problem. Kepler followed by Newton, solved the two body problem, but the three body problem completely defied analysis. That is, can you…
There are a number of huge tech problems that block human settlement on Mars.Mars has no magnetic field so there's no diversion of solar or cosmic rays which will cause…
Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander dropped out of lunar orbit and swooped to a rocket-powered touchdown early Sunday, pulling off the first fully successful moon landing by a commercially-built and…
A breakthrough in physics. What are fundamental constants? The constants might not be constant! What is an atomic clock?A thorium nuclear clock is a highly accurate timekeeping device that uses the…