"The Saturn V Instrument Unit is a ring-shaped structure fitted to the top of the Saturn V rocket's third stage (S-IVB) and the Saturn IB's second stage (S-IVB). It was immediately below the SLA (Spacecraft/Lunar Module Adapter) panels that contain the...

This book just arrived in the mail, and it is great!

Some interesting rocketry promo video clips from the 1970s. Does the narrator sound familiar to anyone?

"The Mariner program was a program conducted by the American space agency NASA that launched a series of robotic interplanetary probes designed to investigate Mars, Venus and Mercury. The program included a number of firsts, including the first...

Team Prometheus, an N-Prize team, has fixed their blog so that everyone (including chrome users like me) can see it. Pictured above is a possible tiny pico-satellite (or actually a femto-sat. I think) for the N-prize mission. Here is the blog.