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$US500 Million NASA Ares 1 Rocket Launcher Needs One (1) Rocket
If anyone has an Ares 1 rocket they need launching, NASA has a brand new, never-been-used $US500 million mobile launching pad that’s just itching to hurl something rocket-sized into space.
Palm’s In-Browser App Factory Is Open For Business
Good News! NASA Is (Probably) Getting More Money
NASA needs more money, because let’s face it, rocket launches ain’t cheap. The good news is, it looks like they’ll be getting some. Not as much as they want, but some.
Pre Developers Get Stupid-Simple Tool To Make Stupid-Simple Apps
It’s no secret that Palm’s been taking it niiiice ‘n slow with their app strategy, whatever it is. Here’s their next baby step: Ares, a browser-based, drag-and-drop development toolkit for making simple apps. It’s a marginally good idea!
One Spectacular Big Bang
Wonder at the impressive technological prowess of the genius engineers at NASA, as brave Ares launches. Be amazed at the sheer beauty of the mighty rocket as it it breaks the sound barrier, thundering the skies of America.
Successful Ares First Stage Test Brings Hell To Utah
What 20,000,000hp engine can deliver 1.6 million kilograms of trust in a howling vomit from hell? The Ares’s first stage, that’s what. Not as hot as 8-kilometre pyroclastic plumes burning holes in the atmosphere, but hot enough.
From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen
May 2019: Our scheduled return to the moon. There’s plenty of labouring to be done on the Constellation Program before then, but the foundation is set. Here’s how you—as an astronaut—would experience the mission:
NASA’s Enormous Stir Welder Assembles Rockets With Friction Instead of Fire
Crocodile Dundee once said: “That’s not an Ares I rocket welder. This is an Ares I rocket welder.” He was obviously referring to this toy in NASA’s garage, which fuses aluminum-lithium 2195 alloy via friction.























