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Why Does a Rocket Need to Roll Going Into Orbit?

Why Does a Rocket Need to Roll Going Into Orbit?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Why Did NASA Still Use Pure Oxygen After the Apollo 1 Fire?

By Amy Shira Teitel

What Was the Mir Space Station?

What Was the Mir Space Station?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Does the Moon Sound Like a Bell?

Does the Moon Sound Like a Bell?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Why Were There Holes in the Titan Rocket that Launched NASA’s Gemini Missions?

Why Were There Holes in the Titan Rocket that Launched NASA’s Gemini Missions?

By Amy Shira Teitel

DIY eye in the sky

Re-Create The First Intercontinental Weapon

By William Gurstelle

Suitsat Might Be The Creepiest Satellite Ever

Suitsat Might Be The Creepiest Satellite Ever

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Apollo 13 crew the day before launch

How Quickly Did the Crew of Apollo 13 Know They Had Lost the Moon?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Meet The Amazing Women Who Launched America’s First Rockets

Meet The Amazing Women Who Launched America’s First Rockets

By Nathalia Holt

I (Sort of) Hosted A Show with President Obama!

I (Sort of) Hosted A Show with President Obama!

By Amy Shira Teitel

Apollo 11 First Stage Separation

How the Saturn V Broke into Pieces Launching to the Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

Hannibal’s Famous Alps Crossing Revealed By Ancient Animal Poop

Hannibal’s Famous Alps Crossing Revealed By Ancient Animal Poop

By Grennan Milliken

Command-Service Module Separation

How Did the Apollo Command and Service Modules Separate?

By Amy Shira Teitel

A Surprisingly Deep History Of Jet Engines And The Planes That Carried Them

A Surprisingly Deep History Of Jet Engines And The Planes That Carried Them

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Why Did The Air Force Play With Cats In Space?

Why Did The Air Force Play With Cats In Space?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Michaelson channeling his inner astronaut.

Meet The First Civilian To Successfully Launch A Rocket Into Space

By Amy Shira Teitel

Shipwrecks And Tree Rings Extend The Hurricane Record By 350 Years

Shipwrecks And Tree Rings Extend The Hurricane Record By 350 Years

By Mary Beth Griggs

A Gemini Model with Paraglider

The Paraglider: How NASA Tried And Failed To Land Without Parachutes

By Amy Shira Teitel

What Really Happened When Apollo 10 Heard Music in Space?

What Really Happened When Apollo 10 Heard Music in Space?

By Amy Shira Teitel

William Gurstelle shoots bottle bazooka

I Defend My Backyard With A Bottle Bazooka

By William Gurstelle

This is what Downtime Looked Like Going to the Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

How the Apollo lunar modules were smashed for science

How the Apollo lunar modules were smashed for science

By Amy Shira Teitel

Liftoff of a spaceship

An Apollo Lunar Landing Told Through Vintage Art

By Amy Shira Teitel

How NASA Broadcast Neil Armstrong Live from the Moon

How NASA Broadcast Neil Armstrong Live from the Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

Two Become One: How the Apollo Spacecraft Stuck Together

Two Become One: How the Apollo Spacecraft Stuck Together

By PopSci Editors

How ‘Popular Science’ Covered The Challenger Disaster

How ‘Popular Science’ Covered The Challenger Disaster

By Carl Franzen

Why Did NASA Choose an Untested Missile to Launch Gemini?

Why Did NASA Choose an Untested Missile to Launch Gemini?

By PopSci Editors

Seventy-Ton Titanosaur Unveiled At Museum Of Natural History

Seventy-Ton Titanosaur Unveiled At Museum Of Natural History

By Grennan Milliken

Explorer 1’s 1958 launch

The Interservice Rivalry that Delayed America’s First Satellite Launch

By Amy Shira Teitel

How the Stage was Set for the Satellite Race

How the Stage was Set for the Satellite Race

By Amy Shira Teitel

NASA’s earliest Christmases in Space Weren’t All Merry

NASA’s earliest Christmases in Space Weren’t All Merry

By Amy Shira Teitel

How Otto Winzen Took Men Into the Stratosphere

How Otto Winzen Took Men Into the Stratosphere

By Amy Shira Teitel

Kepler and the Universe

Kepler and the Universe

By PopSci Editors

Video: Sunken Seaplane Was One Of The First Victims Of Pearl Harbor

By Mary Beth Griggs

Was The V-2 A Nazi Weapon?

Was The V-2 A Nazi Weapon?

By Amy Shira Teitel

A Brief History of Space Stations before the ISS

A Brief History of Space Stations before the ISS

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Inexorable Rise Of Synthetic Flavor: A Pictorial History

The Inexorable Rise Of Synthetic Flavor: A Pictorial History

By Nadia Berenstein

These Incredible Space Station Concepts Never Got Off The Ground

These Incredible Space Station Concepts Never Got Off The Ground

By Amy Shira Teitel

Jack Northrop and the UFO-Lookin’ Flying Wings

Jack Northrop and the UFO-Lookin’ Flying Wings

By Amy Shira Teitel

Build A 300-MPH Ping-Pong Cannon

Build A 300-MPH Ping-Pong Cannon

By William Gurstelle

The Manned Orbiting Laboratory the Air Force Failed to Launch

The Manned Orbiting Laboratory the Air Force Failed to Launch

By Amy Shira Teitel

Why Did Apollo Lunar Samples Have Amino Acids In Them?

Why Did Apollo Lunar Samples Have Amino Acids In Them?

Ed Dwight, the African American Astronaut who Never Flew

Ed Dwight, the African American Astronaut who Never Flew

By Amy Shira Teitel

When We First Saw The Far Side Of The Moon

When We First Saw The Far Side Of The Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Moon from Luna 3

The CIA’s Bold Kidnapping of a Soviet Spacecraft

By Amy Shira Teitel

Apollo 17 Lunar Module Pilot Jack Schmitt

These Apollo pictures show the crowded life of lunar astronauts

By Amy Shira Teitel

Ancient Volcano Collapse Caused A Tsunami With An 800-Foot Wave

Ancient Volcano Collapse Caused A Tsunami With An 800-Foot Wave

By Grennan Milliken

Here Are Some Weird Facts About Pooping in Space

Here Are Some Weird Facts About Pooping in Space

By Amy Shira Teitel

9,000-Year-Old Remains Show Evidence Of Oldest Known Decapitation In The Americas

9,000-Year-Old Remains Show Evidence Of Oldest Known Decapitation In The Americas

By Mary Beth Griggs

Meet the Gemini Radar Evaluation Pod

Meet the Gemini Radar Evaluation Pod

By Amy Shira Teitel

How To Build A Ballistics Box That Measures Fastballs

How To Build A Ballistics Box That Measures Fastballs

By William Gurstelle

Can We Save All The Physical Media In The World As Digital Data?

Can We Save All The Physical Media In The World As Digital Data?

By Lindsey Kratochwill

Diagram of Korabl-Sputnik 1

Remember when a Soviet spacecraft landed in Wisconsin?

By Amy Shira Teitel

A Mushroom Cloud Made From Coffee Creamer

A Mushroom Cloud Made From Coffee Creamer

By William Gurstelle

What’s The Deal With The Apollo Milkstool?

What’s The Deal With The Apollo Milkstool?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Here’s the View from the Highest Ever Orbital Mission

Here’s the View from the Highest Ever Orbital Mission

By Amy Shira Teitel

Meet The Triassic Period’s Oddest Couple

Meet The Triassic Period’s Oddest Couple

This Is What It Looked Like the First Time We Saw Mars

This Is What It Looked Like the First Time We Saw Mars

By Amy Shira Teitel

This is Why the Titan Rockets Launch with a “Bwoop!”

This is Why the Titan Rockets Launch with a “Bwoop!”

By Amy Shira Teitel

Why the Soviet space shuttle was left to rot

Why the Soviet space shuttle was left to rot

By Amy Shira Teitel

The space plane that wasn’t: everything you never needed to know about Dyna-Soar

The space plane that wasn’t: everything you never needed to know about Dyna-Soar

By Amy Shira Teitel

Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Is Bad Science

Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Is Bad Science

By Carl Franzen

The Doctor Who Thought Bed Bugs Spread Smallpox

By Brooke Borel

How Apollo 13 Launched With a Bomb on Board

How Apollo 13 Launched With a Bomb on Board

By Amy Shira Teitel