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Jun 22, 20183 minRocket Man - Alan BondAlan Bond is a legendary English mechanical and aerospace engineer of Reaction Engines Ltd, Project Daedalus, Blue Streak, HOTOL, Skylon,...
Jun 14, 20183 minZubrin's Propellant-less PropulsionI shuddered when I saw a crimson flame through the porthole instead of the usual starry sky at the night horizon of the planet. Vast...
Jun 2, 20184 minHelicopter on Mars“Some segments of this book may be rough going. That's the nature of real science. It requires thought. Sometimes deep thought. But...
May 18, 20183 minBlock5HeadsAnd that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As...
May 4, 20189 minPodcast 79 - The Goonhilly Visit and Magnetospheres on SpaceshipsHumanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant...
Apr 28, 20183 minElectric Eye in the SkyThis is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and...
Apr 18, 20184 minLonely Robot, Space Rocks and Diamonds“We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every...