Interview

Engines, Rockets, and Engineers

To fly humans to Mars we will need a very big rocket to lift the hardware needed to live on another planet for several months before heading home. The planned habitat will likely be the same size a two-story house. This means the rocket will be bigger than the mighty Saturn V of the Apollo […]

A Conversation with Dr. Ochoa

“Right now is the golden time to be an astronaut, we have so much to look forward to,” said Astronaut Reid Wiseman at his panel at SXSW. In order to answer what it is in human space flight that astronauts and the public who watch them with fascination have to look forward to, it would […]

Interstellar Health: Space Travel Saving Lives

We might have forgotten dreams can save us. It is possible we no longer live in a world where we look to new frontiers, and use the dreams of new worlds to positively change our lives here. We might live in a world where the dreams for the future and betterment of our home drive […]

Tina Craig of Bag Snob has Advice for Bloggers

“A lot of people now want to start blogs because they want to be famous, they want to get rich […] they want to have a brand…Those are all the wrong reasons to start anything.” Tina Craig, blogger extraordinaire of Bag Snob fame, shared this tidbit of advice during the question and answer portion of […]

Physics Education in Gaming

The Kerbal Space Academy uses the  game Kerbal Space Program and Twitch TV to inspire creativity and give a basic knowledge of physics. Their goal is to encourage the gaming community to be curious and learn. Here at the gaming expo at SXSW there are many unique takes on how to present games and what […]

Young Astronomers & JWST

At SXSW gaming expo NASA contractor Northrop Grumman has some young University of Texas Astronomy post docs and undergrads talking about the new James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST is launching in  2018 and will work with Hubble in our investigation of the cosmos. Eventually taking over Hubble’s role. Testing is going on right now […]