The first great age of lunar exploration is one of the great epics of the 20th Century. It looks like, with any luck, there will soon be a new age of lunar exploration, with profound implications for ...
Most people can sense a storm coming their way without ever tuning into the local weather station. The many clues that give away Nature's plans have inspired bits of lore throughout the ages -- and a ...
Despite the immense distances and the horrific conditions involved, the exploration of the Outer Planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto has begun. ...
How to find and access energy needed to keep Earthly civilization going and growing is an old problem. But the solution to that problem may not be on the Earth. ...
The 7 day week seems natural to people today, but it did not always exist. Its origins lie in the days of ancient Babylon, and it is not the only system that has been tried. The names of the days of ...
Very few people have ever flown in space. But one can experience what it might be like in a vicarious way in a handfull of films, some about real space missions, some about imaginary ones. ...
The calendar we use today has been developing for millenia, since the days of ancient Egypt. The best minds of countless generations have worked to make the calendar as accurate as possible, but even ...
Man has always struggled to keep accurate track of the time. In ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the first time measurement systems were sundials, which were completely dependent upon the Sun. Today w ...
Chinese astrology can help you better understand why others act the why they do. This ancient practice will tell you if your friend’s a Rat, or if your boss is really a Snake. And discover why you s ...
The concept of space elevators, which would send payloads from the surface of the Earth to geostationary orbit along a ribbon of high strength carbon nanontube, is at least thirty years old. It may be ...
Fifty years ago, a group of scientists and engineers imagined building a space ship that could cross the interplanetary gulfs using the explosive force of nuclear bombs. The concept was called Orion a ...
Space craft manuever through space propelled by the brute force of rocket engines. The engines fire for several minutes, sending a space craft to some destination like Mars or the Moon. The space craf ...
Space solar power is a concept which involves building solar collection stations in space that would literally tap into nature's fusion reactor, the Sun, and transmit that energy to Earth. The energy ...
Terraforming means "to make Earth-like." It is a technique that many scientists believe could be the key to settling the high frontier of space. But transforming a planet, such as Mars, to m ...
Since the dawn of history, man has watched the Moon. It dominates the night sky, controls the tides, and has sparked the human imagination. Today, we know much more about the Moon than our ancestors ...