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How to Build Your Own Spaceship: The Science of Personal Space Travel Piers Bizony
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Warp drives — as a purely theoretical thing and/or science-fiction plot device — involve manipulating space-time to allow a spaceship to go faster than the speed of light. I think I linked to his awesome comics about Curiosity's landing before, but now I need to share this brilliant one about Carl Sagan, brought to my attention on twitter by Emily Lakdawalla, who convinced Maki to make a T-shirtof the last panel. If you had asked me then, I would have assured you that by the year 2000, much less 2009, I'd have my own spaceship, or at least own a flying car and be able to buy tickets on a spaceship whenever I wanted. The pedigree First up, fuel and energy: can a manned rocket make a round trip to Mars? It has also been used as a vehicle to explore societal and personal themes, something which science fiction as a genre can do very well. Overall STID was not bad with the science, but there were a few annoying moments, and one unnecessary howler that did immediately take me out of the movie. Notes & Theories science blog One is Jonathan Clark, a former Nasa flight surgeon and now a space medicine adviser at the National Space Medicine Biomedical Research Institute in Houston. Awesome view of Space Ship 2's rocket firing during a successful supersonic test flight. I like the fact that the pictures we take from space can really make a difference, both in terms of data for people on the ground and the significance of people getting to see what their planet looks like from space. Materials science is the limiting factor in earth-to-orbit and return. STID tried to If you're travelling up a 100 story building at 20mph,you don't feel any heavier than you do standing on the ground stationary. The requirement to minutiarize electronic components to fight in the tight confines of space capsules jump started the computer industry, particularly the personal computer. Tito's Inspiration Mars Foundation will announce audacious plans on Wednesday for a mission to the red planet. By Nana Karikari-apau, CNN Editor's note: The Science Seat is a feature in which CNN Light Years sits down with movers and shakers from different areas of scientific exploration. There are energetic cosmic rays that zip through spaceship hulls. All opinions and views expressed on this blog are personal and do not represent the Department of the Interior, the USGS, or NASA.