Anyone know why the Ares rocket is that shape?
posted by Idcoytco on Oct 28, 2009 - 7 answers

Inspired by this question, I'd like to determine what playground I loved to be taken to in the late 1960s, early 1970s on Long Island, probably in Nassau County. The most salient feature was a climb-on rocket ship. Was it at Jones Beach?
posted by Morrigan on Oct 4, 2009 - 4 answers

Help me find a video of a levitating rocket-propelled platform. [more inside]
posted by dendrite on Sep 21, 2009 - 4 answers

A rocket launch? Near San Francisco? What the hell did I see tonight? [more inside]
posted by symphonik on Mar 21, 2009 - 15 answers

So I'm watching the new Nasa documentary on Discovery and it prompted me to renew my search for rocket art. The issue is that if there is such a thing its not easy to find. I'm looking for prints of old rockets/spacecraft in the vein of this. Doesn't necessarily have to be photographic, but at least photo realistic. Anyone have any ideas of where to look? Bonus points if anyone knows of small scale desktop models of the old school rockets (Atlas, Jupiter, Titan, Redstone).
posted by wavering on Jun 8, 2008 - 3 answers

I would like to find a link for a short video clip of a video game that meets certain criteria. It will go into a presentation to elementary school teachers, as a quick backdrop to a point about interactive games that will be used in school, and that will be fun while challenging kids to think and learn. (It won't itself BE that game; it just has to plausibly look the part.) It needs to have some connection to an outer space theme. [more inside]
posted by daisyace on Jun 2, 2008 - 9 answers

Why do liquid-fuel rockets vent gas while on the launch pad? [more inside]
posted by Tube on Dec 30, 2007 - 7 answers

What are we bombing them with, exactly? A question for weapons geeks. [more inside]
posted by Meatbomb on Nov 29, 2007 - 13 answers

Is it the impact that causes the missile/torpedo/what-have-you to explode? Or some sort of 'on-board' electronic targeting system that tells it to detonate? [more inside]
posted by ryecatcher on Aug 15, 2007 - 13 answers

How would a country determine the success or failure of a missile test? [more inside]
posted by grabbingsand on Jul 7, 2006 - 6 answers

Price-my-non-radioactive-rocket-Filter: I have a family heirloom whose value I would love to learn (not that I am planning on parting with it, but out of curiosity). It is a piece of the Vanguard1A, the first attempt by the US to reach space, which exploded rather famously in December, 1956. [More, including my brush with radioactive death, inside] [more inside]
posted by blahblahblah on Nov 4, 2005 - 10 answers

NASA has released details today of their new "exploration architecture" which they hope will take them to the moon and mars. (really awesome movie). Help me understand a design decision. [more inside]
posted by Popular Ethics on Sep 19, 2005 - 20 answers