It is inevitable. Spaceflight hardware tests sometimes lead to explosive results. In the most recent example, aerospace giant Lockheed Martin recently completed a successful blast test of the company’s under-scale inflatable space module. The test was conducted at the Lockheed facility in Denver, Colorado on June 14 on the same test rig used for the … Read more
The gray side of a metal test rig curves up like a bad elbow from the bottom right. It is the profile of what remains of the test bed of the historic Titan rocket. In the center of the image, a cloud of smoke rises from the ground as debris blankets the surrounding air. Two … Read more
Mars may be a cold, dry, dead world, but it’s still a part of nature. As a part of nature, it displays a kind of haunted beauty as only non-living forces shape its surface over long periods of time. It is like a laboratory on a rocky planet shaped by natural forces where the interference … Read more
In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, made history when it crashed into an asteroid and demonstrated that a kinetic impact could redirect a space rock on a collision course with Earth. The DART mission also sent groundbreaking images to Earth of the rubble-strewn surface of its target, Dimorphos, a small moon … Read more
