Human Folly about “NASA”

NASA s Mars sample return mission (science.org):
#news that #NASA has canceled its #Mars sample return mission
on 02026-09-22
SP 4407 etuv1 (nasa.gov):
#PDF with a collection of papers from the #history of #NASA and #flying in #space, including an abridged and poorly reformatted version of #Goddard’s original #paper, with the figures redrawn poorly and the plates omitted, where he seems to be unaware of Tsiolkovsky’s work on the rocket equation.
on 02026-04-28
Journey to the moon (nasa.gov):
#Artemis II image gallery page from #NASA, including “Hello, World”.
on 02026-04-03
(youtube.com):
#video on #NASA’s EAST, Something Air Shock Tunnel, where they dump 1.25MJ into an exploding bridgewire to rupture a rupture disc and produce a 48km/s shockwave in a tunnel.
on 02025-09-03
NASA carbon dioxide satellite mission threatened (npr.org):
#news about #Trump destroying #NASA #CO2 monitoring satellites, the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. #space #politics #toread #USA
on 02025-08-27
Lisp in space with Ron Garret (corecursive.com):
Ron Garret on #debugging and fixing a failure on Deep #Space 1 when it was 200 million km away. #history #NASA
on 02024-01-31