Powerful
NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration and Artemis. SLS is the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and cargo directly to the Moon in a single launch.
Update 2026: Artemis
26-JUN
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Category Archives: Atmospheric
17-JUN
Deliberate
Be not merciful unto them that offend of malicious wickedness. They grin like a dog and run about through the city. But thou, O Lord, shalt have them in derision. Thou shalt laugh all the heathen to scorn.
–Psalm 59
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
–FrederickDouglass
16-JUN
Going
Non-stop flight from London to San Francisco shows up as a curve on a Mercator Projection map of the Northern Hemisphere. The trip takes 11 hours at 36,000 feet altitude in the cramped fuselage of the Boing 777 jet airliner traveling up to 590 mph.
Return flight over Greenland across Hudson Bay into Manitoba, exposed scenes of boundless, deathly, frozen landscape.
13-JUN
Specialized
He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios, and a fair bit about berries.
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
08-JUN
Consciousness
04-JUN
Anemometer
Tells a lot about wind direction.
per·am·bu·late (verb)
- formal • humorous – travel through or around a place in a leisurely way. “With great pleasure she perambulated the square.”
- historical • British – walk around (a parish, forest, etc) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries.
01-JUN
Motion
Embrace movement outdoors to boost vitality.
Enthusiasm, the noun, comes from the Greek word enthousiasmos, meaning “possessed by a god, inspired.”
29-MAY
Extreme
How can a straight line, extending itself out to reach itself, form a circle of infinite diameter? Explain.
How can a spherical object represent the universe? Expand the metaphor.