Tag Archives: Spacecraft

NASA has never accidentally sent a probe into the Sun.

Posted on May 11, 2015 by

Last week, I was having lunch with some friends, which included a number of programmers.  One of them mentioned an old urban myth, that I hadn’t heard in several years, which claims that, due to a programming bug (involving a misplaced semicolon), NASA once … Continue reading →

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xkcd: Spacecraft and launch vehicle payloads, in horses

Posted on December 17, 2014 by

  Similar to the relative spacecraft and rocket sizes I linked to the other day, here’s xkcd’s version, in horse units.  At first I thought he was referring to horsepower, but then I realized it was horse mass.  (Click through … Continue reading →

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Every Ship That Has Carried Humans Into Space, In One Chart

Posted on December 2, 2014 by

This is pretty cool.  A Reddit user put together a chart showing all the human occupied spacecraft that have been used so far.  Click through to see the full sized version. via Every Ship That Has Carried Humans Into Space, In One … Continue reading →

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Project Morpheus test flights

Posted on March 12, 2014 by

If you’ve ever read in any old time science fiction, you probably encountered a lot of stories where the characters took off vertically in a rocket ship, and later landed in the same rocket ship, vertically.  Vertical take off and … Continue reading →

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