NASA and the Zero-Gravity Pen

October 18, 2007 · Filed Under Make Money Online · Comment 

Here is an interesting story, found at Teaching Sells.

Back when NASA started launching manned spacecraft in the 1960s, they found out that the astronauts couldn’t use pens to write with while in space. The ink wouldn’t flow down through the pen in a zero-gravity environment. NASA decided to retain a man named Paul Fisher to design a pen that would work in space.

A mere $1.5 million later, they had a solution. NASA now had a pen that worked in zero gravity, in a vacuum, and in a drastic temperature range.

The Russian cosmonauts had the same problem, of course.

So they used a pencil.

Now, this anecdote isn’t historically accurate, and has become a bit of an urban legend. The truth is both the US and Russia used pencils at first, and Paul Fisher independently created the pen and sold 400 of them to NASA for a song. The reason the exaggerated story is so widely embraced, though, is because it rings true.

We often expend large amounts of time and effort creating elaborate solutions to problems when a simple answer is right under our noses.

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NASA create 3D images of the Sun

April 24, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

NASA create 3D images of the Sun

Using the agency’s twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft, NASA astronomers have created the first three-dimensional images of the Sun. The new view, they say, will greatly aid scientists’ ability to understand solar physics and thereby improve space weather forecasting.

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Visible Earth: Earth’s City Lights

April 12, 2007 · Filed Under Sci and Tech · Comment 

Visible Earth: Earth's City Lights

A beautiful high resolution photograph from NASA of the Earth’s city lights. Simply beautiful, reminds me of a quote, scientist can only dream of going to space but it is the astronaut that goes to space, how ironic.

Even more than 100 years after the invention of the electric light, some regions remain thinly populated and unlit. Antarctica is entirely dark. The interior jungles of Africa and South America are mostly dark, but lights are beginning to appear there. Deserts in Africa, Arabia, Australia, Mongolia, and the United States are poorly lit as well (except along the coast), along with the boreal forests of Canada and Russia, and the great mountains of the Himalaya.

Download the high resolution of Earth’s City Lights

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Moon Base By 2020

December 4, 2006 · Filed Under Sci and Tech · Comment 

There you go, VOA News reports that Nasa plans to build a moon base. With the US and her on going war, I wonder how is Nasa going about funding the project knowing that the US is in big debt. If thing continue to worsen, a recession might hit and there goes the human civilization.

The United States says it plans to establish the first permanent human base on the moon by 2020 at the latest. The space agency NASA has revealed its plans for locating the outpost and for a landing craft that would carry astronauts from the base to explore other regions. VOA’s David McAlary reports from Washington.

No image of the moon base from Nasa but here are some of the past concept by artist around the world.

Moon Base By 2020

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