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Yesterday at Blue Origin's West Texas proving grounds, the company's New Shepard spacecraft launched to an altitude of 329,839 feet, almost 2,000 feet past the international accepted boundary of space, and returned to Earth
This is the kind of engagement--a mutually beneficial give and take with media outlets--that results in great publicity for your products, and that in turn brings you more sales and greater investment.
Yesterday at a press conference in the Flatiron district in NYC, I and a few other journalists were treated to a showing and presentation of some spectacular video footage of the Earth from space by UrtheCast.
The competition seeks to recreate the gizmo of the Star Trek TV and movie franchise that can get a quick read on a patient's vital signs and show a user what's ailing him or her.
A gasoline engine on board charges the batteries that run the rotors, giving the drones 2 hours or more of flight time versus the 15-30 minutes more typical of electric-only drones
This morning at about 9 a.m. Eastern Time, SpaceX launched the crew version of its Dragon space capsule for the first time... The capsule launched from a pad at Cape Canaveral using its onboard Super Drago rocket engines.
After a flurry of activity, here on MadScienceInnovation.com, I've decided to move my blogging activities back to MichaelBelfiore.com.
Space travel is a funny thing. It's the only form of transportation where it is considered perfectly acceptable to throw away your vehicle after every flight. That's a big part of the reason it's so expensive. Imagine having to build a new jumb
IDEO's Tom Kelley on why purpose trumps profit - Why Orion won't be America's next spaceship (and this one will)
New Space Frontiers by Piers Bizony - Vipassana: 10 days to greater creativity - Citizenfour and DARPA
I just had a chance to see the documentary about NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden. Citizenfour is an amazing look behind the scenes at the revelation that the National Security Agency has a number of programs for collecting and analyzing information
