Bio fuels are becoming increasingly mainstream powering airplanes, boats, even cars, and the rest of the U.S. aerospace industry isn’t ignoring it either. Surprising results from a bio diesel powered rocket test point to a promising future where NASA may use renewable fuels to power their rockets.
Ever since long-term space missions have been proposed for the future, scientists have been at a loss for a viable food source during the missions. In the past silkworms have been introduced as the “perfect solution”, but in reality quite a few vegetables would work well. Researchers have determined that sweet potatoes would be another idea candidate, since their roots are able to regenerate in microgravity, and sweet potatoes in general are a very hardy crop.
Following a few other European nations, the Canadian Government has opened up thousands of federal records dealing with UFO sightings to the public. The accounts, spanning over 9,000 different documents cover reports from the late 1940’s to the early 1980’s. Sources for the reports include Canada’s National Defense Department, Department of Transport, National Research Council, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Federal agencies are notorious for being a bit “behind the times” in terms of certain web technologies, from website design to social networking to social media. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) seems to be taking a step in the right direction with the announced launch of their new social-networking site called Spacebook.
On Tuesday 500 miles above Siberia two satellites collided in a low-Earth orbit, the first time an event like this has occurred in space. The collision was thought to have taken place just before noon on Tuesday, and it was first noticed when a large debris cloud was spotted.
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