M113 Armored Personnel Carrier: The Perfect Astronaut Rescue Vehicle
For each launch of the Space Shuttle, NASA had a special rescue team standing by in armored personnel carriers, ready to carry astronauts and... Read more →
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Lessons from the Apollo 1 Fire
On January 27, 1967 a short circuit in NASA's Apollo 1 command module sparked a fire fueled by the pure oxygen atmosphere resulting in the death... Read more →
SpaceX Test Fires Engine Prototype for Astronaut Escape System
Source: NASA One of NASA's industry partners, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), completed a full-duration, full-thrust firing of its... Read more →
The Need for Real “Rocket Science” to Solve Russian Spaceflight Setbacks
The loss of Phobos-Grunt remains a mystery, but a bit of “rocket science” can shed some light on the mission’s mysteries (Credits:... Read more →
Predicting Hazardous Events in the Van Allen Belts: Where Does the Radiation Go?
Source: NASA Artist concept of the twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft, scheduled for launch in August 2012 (Credit: NASA). When... Read more →
Infographic: Solar Storms
Recent solar flare activity this January has heralded what is forecast to be the most active solar weather year in some time. The infographic below... Read more →
![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)
