spaceflight
Future Spacemen May Not be Men at All: How Robots, Cyborgs and Mutants Will (and Won't) be Better Astronauts Than Us
The end of the Space Shuttle program has brought the question of man’s future in space to the forefront. What are NASA’s astronauts going to do between now and whatever comes next, go to Russia and hitch a ride to the ISS on a Soyuz?
How Should We Remember the Space Shuttle
h3. Also see Neil deGrasse Tyson explain "why we had a space shuttle":http://motherboard.tv/2011/7/8/shuttle-diplomacy-watch-neil-degrasse-tyson-explain-how-the-space-shuttle-was-never-really-about-science There are a lot of self-described shuttle...
The Strange Disappearing Act of the Mars Polar Lander
When sending a multi-million dollar lander to Mars, do your homework.
Saturn V Got Us To the Moon, and Then Disappeared
No one who built the Saturn V is around to tell us how it worked.
The Handsome Stuff: How Yuri Gagarin was Selected to be the First Cosmonaut
If you've read Tom Wolfe’s canonical space history “The Right Stuff,” or seen the famous movie adaptation, you know something of the grueling selection process of America’s Mercury astronaut.
The Tricky Business of Splashdowns: How Many Sailors Does it Take to Recover an Astronaut?
Images of splashdowns have become iconic of the space race era; an Apollo command module suspended under its three red and white parachutes as it hits the Pacific Ocean have the power to invoke feelings of pride with an epic American venture.
