Development of NASA’s Ares Moon rockets continues apace, despite criticisms from an team designing an alternative. Now NASA engineers have announced how they’re going to deal with a potentially serious vibration problem in the crew-launched Ares I: springs.
Remember when it was cool to joke about how the vibrating Wii remote looked, felt and behaved pretty much like a vibrator? No? Well, too bad, because it turns out that the two were more similar than the light-hearted humour suggested. In fact, both tools of pleasure employ technology built from a patent from the same company, Immersion.
