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more about #rockets promethean_spark: The KSLV-1 is just an off the shelf Russian Angara booster with a South Korean upperstage. Being a non-storable liquid fueled rocket, it's not part... more » Rocketknight: So basically North Korea says "We should be able to do whatever the hell we want with rockets!", then sees South Korea doing the same and suddenly say... more » 92BuickLeSabre: I've been playing too much Civilization on my iPhone. I can not seem to read this story or the comments and think of them playing out as anything but... more » WestMantooth: As long as we don't get any raidoactive space chimps, then the NK will be fine. more » Jack_Ferguson: When you take into account that so many precious metals and elements that are important in electronics are running out on Earth, then the commercialis... more » rek: KSLV is the old name, Wikipedia says it's called the Naro-1 now. more » bmoreDLJ: Duh, if the DPRK can launch rockets, surely the ROK can. If the North has a problem, they can blog about it on their Commodore 64s. more » Mount_Prion: You can't see the ESTES sticker on the side of it in these photos. more » Allen_Richards: My vote's for "SPACE RACE." Sometimes I like to be the voice of opposition...or in this case, hope... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Or? more » bonniegrrl: I'll have you know that I use that Galactic Glitter Glue in most of my Star Wars craft projects... more » Strakus: Well considering the glues in question generally have greater tensile strength than steel... Furthermore, Burt Rutan, with Voyager, Global Flyer, and... more » alphanumeric1971: A tad off topic, but, is the glue pictured made out of Twilight vampires? more » Trai_Dep: I guess those kids huddled over basement model kits & gooey tubes of hallucination-friendly cement had the right approach after all. I just hope that... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Why glue? Because the price of duct tape and chewing gum has gone up way to much lately. more » AngryEddy: I cannot believe how brave those astronauts were. Imagine putting on one of those iffy-looking suits and hoping they didn't fail when you had to walk... more » Jes St.Lawrence: I'm too sexy for asbestos, too sexy for asbestos, Connections & Cosmos. more » LittleDragon: Where are the sexy skin tight suits MIT was working on? more » Belabras: Very, very cool. more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Growing up in DC, countless field trips were spent going to see the various Smithsonian Museums and the Air and Space never, ever, got boring or repet... more » -
#rocketporn
Will This Rocket Help Ignite A New Space Race, Or A New World War?
Here's South Korea's first space rocket, the prosaically named Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, whose scheduled launch was aborted today. If it ever launches, will the KSLV-1 establish South Korea as a space power, or create new tensions with North Korea? More » -
#spacescience
The Future Of Space Travel Is Glue
The days of high-tech metal mountings to hold spacecraft together are gone, according to the man designing Virgin Galactics' commercial spaceplanes. Apparently, all you need is glue. Knowing that, suddenly we're much more worried about flying in a Virgin ship. More » -
#apollomission
The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon
Check out this row of experimental astronaut suits — they look like something out of Tintin. With the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing coming up, the National Air and Space Museum is displaying precious Apollo mission artifacts. Gallery below. More » -
#rocketporn
An Experimental Rocket Soars Over The Coast, On Its Way To A Pre-Planned Disaster
A specially designed rocket soars over Wallops Island, VA, on its way to test a new astronaut escape system for NASA's Orion spacecraft, due to start launching in 2015. Want to see the fancy new escape system? There are parachutes... More » -
#design
Give Your Bathroom A Rocketeer Make-Over
What better way to impress your friends than to bring the sexy sleek lines of rocket ships right into your sink? Who needs gold plated tubs and jacuzzi jets when your faucet is this chic? More » -
#beyondcosmodrome
Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space
It's amazing how sleek and old-school the Soyuz rocket looks, preparing to blast off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. Especially surrounded by Soviet-looking guards. More Cosmodrome porn is below. More » -
#spaceporn
A Rocket to Save the Earth
This Japanese H-2A rocket blasted off on Friday with a payload of six satellites, including the Ibuki, whose sole purpose is to gather data on greenhouse gas emissions. More » -
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#romantictragediesofspace
Love Is Like a Rocket Smashing to Earth on a Steep Ballistic Reentry Course
Nothing like the smoking ruins left behind after a rocket smashes to Earth on a fast, steep reentry course. I love this set of images showing the results of the Russian Soyuz rocket's return to Earth in April of this year. Recently uncovered by Dark Roasted Blend, the images show the rocket's burning tear through a field of grain, and then close in on the blackened husk of the reentry cone itself. More » -
#rockets
Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars
Made of glass and recycled metals, these spaceships look like they were torn from the pages of rocket magazines in the 1930s. They're the battered but delicate stars of Rik Allen's show "Innersphere" at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, which runs through April 27. Allen, a master glass blower, said he wanted to pay homage to the science fiction he loved as a kid. Here are another two of his pieces, below. More » -
#conceptart
Rocket Porn Sexes Up The Space Shuttle
Why is there a rocket racing ahead of the space shuttle in this 1971 Tang ad? Maybe it's because the sleek-but-functional space shuttle concept art just doesn't look scifi enough on its own. Or maybe this is a symbolic baton-passing from the Apollo missions to the coming shuttle era. Either way, the space shuttle didn't look nearly this vivid and space-opera by the time it actually existed. Image by Wishbook. [Fanboy.com] -
#rockets
Russian Space Rocket Looks Totally Old-School
The Soyuz-FG launcher sticks to a 1950s snub-nosed aesthetic, even though it was built in 2001. The Soyuz is preparing to launch Dec. 14 from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome. Image by STR/AFP/Getty Images.
