For the last six years, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight outfit Blue Origin has been developing a powerful new engine for deep space travel. For the first time, Blue Origin has conducted a successful test fire of that engine, the BE-4. The BE-4 is a successor to the BE-3 which powers Blue Origin’s New Shepard […]
Gravitational Waves: International Group of Scientists Reveal Extraordinary Breakthrough in Understanding the Cosmos
October 16, 2017
For the first time in history, an international consortium of scientists, astronomers, and researchers collaborating on 7 continents have viewed the collision of two neutron stars––an event that occurred almost 130 million years ago. They did so by detecting the elusive gravitational waves or ripples in spacetime that Albert Einstein first predicted almost a century […]
Last year at Kennedy Space Center, I briefly encountered one of the space industry’s most intriguing and eccentric personalities, Robert Bigelow. The billionaire and real estate tycoon founded Budget Suites of America, a company that found success in creating living spaces that were efficient and cost-effective for longer periods of stay. Incredibly, Bigelow is now […]
Technology seems to be rapidly advancing at a faster rate then I can keep up with. Though I certainly have heard of 3D printing, I had no idea about all of the cool things that this type of technology was doing and how useful it could be. When it was first introduced, 3D printers worked […]
During my sophomore year of college, my roommate and I rented the movie Her. Watching the movie was almost a spiritual experience that forced us to reckon with many of our preconceived notions. For two hours, we witnessed the main character, Theodore, falling in love with the voice of his new operating system, Samantha. What […]
