The Slide Rule
Technology museum at the corner of my workshop The Slide Rule I just finished reading The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution by T.R. Reid. Reid did an enormous amount of research on all the names and technologies of the 1950s and 60s. I was an electrical engineering student from […]
Research Papers
Research Papers Scientific, engineering, and medical research papers are the backbone of global innovation and progress. They set the future. These documents not only chronicle new discoveries and technological advances but also serve as the primary means for researchers to communicate, validate, and build upon one another’s work. I believe awareness of what research papers […]
Boeing vs SpaceX
Boeing Starliner on the left. SpaceX Starship on the right. Boeing vs SpaceX Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Starship missions both achieved spaceflight milestones during the first week of June. Boeing’s Starliner overcame a series of technical problems including the malfunctioning of thrusters to dock at the International Space Station (ISS). Two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore […]
How Can We Get a Look at the Beginning of Time?
Image credit: ESA Written: December 30, 2021 The space industry has had a great 2021. A few highlights include amazing feats on the surface of Mars, the blooming of space tourism, and SpaceX’s one-hundredth recovery of Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage boosters. Even more spectacular may turn out to be what took place early on […]
Why Should We Go To Mars?
https://youtu.be/rzmd7RouGrM Last July 30th, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. On February 18, 2021, 203 days later, and having travelled 293 million miles, the spacecraft reached Mars. The the car-size Perseverance, the centerpiece of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, entered […]