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Giz Explains: Four Ways Space Can Kill You
Turns out being blown out of an airlock and turning into a meat ice block after succumbing to hypoxia isn’t so bad. At least not when compared to the multitude of other deadly maladies that await you in the depths of space. Here are just a few ways that interplanetary exploration is conspiring to kill us all.
Remembering Apollo 1, NASA’s First Major Disaster
46 years ago today, veteran astronaut Gus Grissom, first American spacewalker Ed White, and rookie Roger Chaffee were killed in a cabin fire during an Apollo 1 launch pad test. The first majorly fatal accident in NASA’s history, the fire was caused in part by the cabin’s pure oxygen atmosphere and a number of other dangerous design flaws that were correct over the 20-month delay that followed the incident.
Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
Ever since learning about the Rubber Room and Blast Room deep below launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space centre I had been hopeful that I would one day get to photograph this mysterious remnant of the Apollo Program. I had seen very few photos of this room online and by talking to friends at KSC I seemed to have confirmed that access to this underground bunker had been very limited over the years.
Apollo Program’s Computer Used Rope Memory Woven By Little Old Ladies
The fact that an iPhone is four times as powerful as the Curiosity rover’s onboard computer is pretty cool, but just take a look at the meagre tech the Apollo Program used to get into space. The computer was so pitiful that the software of the Apollo guidance computer was literally handwoven into its memory.
Windows Phone 8 Details Leak: Bigger And Faster
While Microsoft is still trying to get people to care about Windows Phone, details of the next big version are already nailed down, claims Pocketnow. The site says it’s acquired a Microsoft video spilling the beans on Windows Phone 8.
How America’s First Reusable Space Shuttle Got Off The Ground
