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Homemade Astronauts is a television show on Science Channel (Discovery Science USA) and Discovery+ that debuted in 2021. It featured DIY wannabe astronauts, who design and build their own equipment, in an attempt to reach the edge of space.
Mark Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator.He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets.Before he became a YouTuber, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASASpaceflight also produces videos and live streams of rocket launches online, with a special focus on developments at SpaceX's Starbase facility, [5] [6] for which they were recognized with an award by SpaceNews. [7] NSF is currently providing three 24/7 live-streams covering the following: [citation needed] the Starship operations at ...
Brian Walker is a toy inventor from Bend, Oregon [1] who is known for attempting to build his own rocket and as the inventor of several toys, namely the air bazooka. His rocket is known as Project R.U.S.H., which stands for Rapid Up Super High. It was intended to be fueled by hydrogen peroxide and equipped with parachutes for use when landing ...
The series aired between June 27, 1949, and April 1, 1955, originally on Monday through Saturday at 7 p.m. ET, and then Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. ET. [1] A separate 30-minute spinoff series called The Secret Files of Captain Video aired Saturday mornings, alternating with Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, from September 5, 1953, to May 29, 1954 ...
An appalling accident rate [5] led individuals such as G. Harry Stine and Vernon Estes to make model rocketry a safe and widespread hobby by developing and publishing the National Association of Rocketry Model Rocket Safety Code, and by commercially producing safe, professionally designed and manufactured model rocket motors. Model rocketry by ...
The company was a competitor for the Ansari X-Prize.Armadillo's X-Prize vehicle was unorthodox among modern rockets in that instead of using stabilization fins, which complicate the design and increase drag, Armadillo used an aerodynamically unstable design, where the computer controlled jet vanes based on feedback from fibre optic gyroscopes.
On 27 July 2019, Japanese startup Interstellar Technologies Inc. launched sounding rocket MOMO-F4 with number of payloads including three origami paper planes made out of heat resistant paper. These paper planes by paper-plane enthusiast Takuo Toda were supposed to be released at the planned 100 km apogee, but due to anomalies the MOMO-F4 ...