In our Photo Of The Day, we can see a sentinel who participates in the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. This happened during the NASA Day of Remembrance, January 28, 2021. Caption for the [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is composed by Mr 5lade. The firearm is a CZ Bren, kindly displayed by the Droid and flight assistant Maggie. But in this POTD we pretend it’s the next NASA Gun. While you’re in your deep sleep, traveling into unknown and remote [Read More…]
NASA has a lot of smart people working for them. Considering this, I would have expected the Asteroid Redirect Mission to use more advanced technology than a firearm, but alas, sometimes violence is the answer. Honeybee Robotics Ltd. has deployed a video of their [Read More…]
The latest Popular Mechanics (Jan 2009) has an article about the 12 foot long vertical gun NASA has at the Ames Research Center. The gun is used to simulate impacts from meteor and space debris. What is very interesting is that it utilizes a hybrid air gun / gun powder [Read More…]
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