By Laurence Prusak Who was the last person who knew everything? That’s right, there was a time when this was a legitimate question for pundits in Europe and the early American republic.
By Bo Schwerin Imagine you are about to be dropped in the middle of a remote, inhospitable region—say the Kalahari Desert.
By Don Cohen Josh Simpson has been creating planets for more than three decades. The cover photo of this issue of ASK shows detail from one of them.
NASA in the News NASA Public Affairs Officer Josh Byerly talked with ground-support personnel and mission officials in Russia and Kazakhstan as they prepared for the landing of Expedition 27 on May 23, 2011.
A mobility chassis prototype is demonstrated in 2008 as part of a series of tests of lunar surface concepts. This is one prototype of many that are field tested as part of NASA’s ongoing Desert Research and Technology Studies, or Desert RATS. The Desert RATS tests offer a NASA-led team of engineers, astronauts, and scientists […]
By Kerry Ellis Knowledge obtained from decades of exploration and discovery, in space and here on Earth, would remain unknown if no one learned about it.
NASA in the News A pattern of X-ray “stripes” in the remains of the Tycho supernova, discovered after long observation with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, may provide the first direct evidence that a cosmic event can accelerate particles to energies a hundred times higher than those achieved by the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, […]
By Piers Bizony During the space race of the 1960s, NASA Administrator James Webb and his Soviet counterpart, Sergei Korolev, shared the determination and skill needed to push a rocket program past countless political barriers, beyond the reach of jealous rivals, and toward success.
By Blair Allen NASA has many outlets for sharing details about what goes on behind its doors, but none so personable as NASA EDGE, a video podcast (or vodcast) that grew out of an idea to be “different … unscripted and unpredictable.”
