Entries Tagged as 'space'

Monday, August 4th, 2008

The Water Cube

The National Aquatics Center in Beijing. “…The Water Cube was initially designed by PTW Architects (an Australia Architectural company) [2], CSCEC International Design and Arup with structural Engineers Arup conceiving the structure. The structure was built by CSCEC (China State Construction Engineering Corporation). Comprising a steel space frame, it is the largest ETFE clad structure [...]

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Emission control: the NASA space sex experiments (EDIT: HOAX!)

[EDIT: appears to be a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/risque/tattled/shuttle.asp Hat tip to zarex.] Pierre Kohler, author of The Final Mission: Mir, The Human Adventure says: The issue of sex in space is a serious one,” he says. “The experiments carried out so far relate to missions planned for married couples on the future International Space Station, the [...]

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

jpaerospace – 7 years to space

http://www.jpaerospace.com/ The atmosphere as a ladder to space. Balloons have carried people and machines to the edge of space for over seventy years. JP Aerospace is developing the technology to fly a balloonor more accurately, their relative, the airshipdirectly to orbit. Flying an airship directly from the ground to orbit is not practical. An airship [...]