Humans began using chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs in the 1920s. These were used in air conditioners, aerosol spray cans, and industrial cleaning products up until the 1970s. CFCs are quite harmful to the environment and can break apart molecules found in the ozone layer. Thus resulting in stratospheric ozone depletion. But did you know how long […]
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The use of temperature monitoring devices and cooling methods, such as forced airflow, is a form of thermal control. Several pods and stations launched by NASA are equipped with state-of-the-art thermal controls, but did you ever wonder why these are essential for the International Space Station? Without thermal controls, the international space station’s temperature would
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NASA retired a historic piece of equipment on December 1, 2014, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It wasn’t a rocket or even a deep space nine-iron. It was the original countdown clock, a large analog display the size of a titan’s wristwatch that stood across the river from the rocket launch site and
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The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was a nuclear accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat. To this day, it is considered the worse nuclear disaster in history. The area is highly radioactive and inhabitable. However, many areas bordering the zone are relatively safe to live in. Researchers who constantly study
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The Concorde was a supersonic airplane that was built in the 1960s as a joint venture between the United Kingdom and France. It was the first aircraft of its kind. Only 14 of these plans went into service before it was eventually retired in 2003. With all the advancements in the aircraft’s design, you might
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Environmental factors in space are dramatically different from Earth, because of these differences the daily rhythms of activity and heart rate of astronauts while they were in space were noted. Did you know, that on the infamous moon landing Neil Armstrong experienced an anxiety attack? Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, experienced a
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Diana Trujillo works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as an aeronautical engineer from Colombia. She is currently in charge of the engineering team at JPL that is in charge of the Perseverance Rover’s robotic arm. Trujillo hosted the first-ever Spanish-language NASA webcast of a planetary landing, the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, on February
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Josua Hutagalung, a 33-year-old man from Indonesia has become an instant news sensation in his hometown when a meteorite crashed into his how. But what was so special about the meteorite? An Indonesian coffin maker became an instant millionaire when a meteorite worth £1.4 million crashed through the roof of his house. The meteorite is
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The Mars cycler is a type of spacecraft that travels between Earth and Mars regularly. An example of a Mars cycler is the Aldrin cycler. It is called the Aldrin cycler because of Buzz Aldrin. But how did this famous astronaut get a spacecraft to be named after him? Buzz Aldrin, devised an orbital system
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There are over 6,000 women working in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The number of women at the management level has also increased by 59 percent in the past decade. But even with the large number of women working for NASA today, there still seems to be a disconnect between the needs of
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