Timelapse footage released by NASA shows the construction of a rocket fuel tank for the core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket in just 60 seconds. The 212-foot tank was constructed at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
French daredevil François Gissy set a world record on November 7th, 2014 by reaching 207mph on a homemade rocket-propelled bicycle in 4.8 seconds at The Circuit Paul Ricard race track in Marseille, France. This year, Gissy also created a custom eco-friendly trike, powered by a water tank pressurized to 6,000…
Time-lapse footage shows workers at NASA's Stennis Space Center assembling an RS-25 rocket engine in only two minutes. The RS-25 rocket engine was used on NASA's Space Shuttle program, and will be used in the new Space Launch System that could send craft on missions to Mars.
Great Big Story went inside a Boeing plant in New Orleans that's currently collaborating with NASA to build the Space Launch System, an incredibly powerful rocket that could quite possibly put the first human on Mars. They spoke with a number of employees who are working on this exciting project,…
http://youtu.be/2aCOyOvOw5c Did you ever want to know what it's like to ride a rocket into space? This video is exactly that. For real. A sensory overloading intimate perspective of a Space Shuttle blasting into Earth's upper atmosphere at 3000 miles an hour. And then what's it like to let go…
Photographers Ryan Chylinski and MaryLiz Bender have captured absolutely stunning ultra-slow-motion footage of SpaceX rocket launches over the last year. The couple used autonomous ultra-high speed cameras that were placed upon the launch pad itself to capture this amazing footage which is part of a longer film that includes from…
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) successfully test fired their 75-ton liquid-fuel rocket engine for 75 seconds at the Naro Space Center in Goheung-gun, South Korea on June 9th, 2016. images via KARI via The Awesomer
Glen Tickle
Amelia's dad. Steph's husband. Writer, comedian, gentleman. Good at juggling, bad at chess.
