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0	Homemade Rocket Explodes Messily in Dad's Face [Video] More » 0 Published 9 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
8	Because God Loves Rocket Science! Submitted by: epor 0 Published 18 days ago in Picture Is Unrelated - WTF Pictures and...: Profile, Details
0	Congress Wants Broken Laser to Zap North Korea's Broken Missiles [Lasers] North Korea's missile program seems to be moving backwards, with its latest failed launch crapping out earlier than its 2009 dud. Yet House Republicans still want a flying, missile-zapping laser cannon to ... 0 Published 24 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	All Modern American Rockets and Spaceships Compared [Space] This is a very neat graphic: all modern American rockets and spaceships compared, from XCOR's Lynx—a two-seat space transport vehicle—to NASA's next-generation Space Launch System. And of cours... 0 Published 31 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	ATF: Curbside Trash Is Not the Proper Means to Dispose of a Rocket Launcher—Unless It's Unloaded [Guns] Is the guided missile launcher of yours taking up too much space in your home? No worries! Turns out, you don't even need to recycle it. Hosuton PD and the ATF were summoned to the Kingwood neighborhood in... 0 Published 34 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	China Now Tops US in Space Launches [Military] For the first time ever, China has launched more rockets into orbit in a year than the U.S. In 2011, the Chinese sent 19 rockets into space. The U.S. sent just 18. Russia, the Walmart of space launches, fi... 0 Published 37 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	North Korea Shows Off Glorious New Weapons that Probably Won't Work [North Korea] To celebrate the Immortal Perfect Rocket Glory Leadership of chubby dictator slug Kim Jung-un, North Korea threw itself a parade. Unlike, say, the Thanksgiving Day Parade, this one was mostly goose-steppin... 0 Published 39 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	North Korea Is Lying About Its Rocket Launch, Sat-Watchers Show [North Korea] North Korea claims that its impending satellite launch, scheduled for this week, is merely a mission to study the country's "distribution of forests" and weather patterns. But after analyzing the satellite... 0 Published 43 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Just Some Awesome NASA Rockets Leaving Beautiful Trails In the Sky [Video] NASA is conducting experiments to "better understand the process responsible for the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the surface of the Earth." Sounds boring? Watch the video and en... 0 Published 58 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Space Tugboats Are Exactly What They Sound Like [Monster Machines] Modern spacecraft use a majority of their fuel supplies just to break away from the Earth's gravity and actually get into space. But a new NASA proposal hopes to cut that fuel requirement in half by employ... 0 Published 77 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Video: First Nanorockets Might Shuttle Drugs, Robo-Surgeons In the movie Fantastic Voyage, a crack surgical team is miniaturized inside a ship. Their mission: to destroy a blood clot in the brain of a Soviet-era informant. Given the relatively vast distances covered inside the body, how... 0 Published 87 days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Rocket Science Explained For Non-Rocket Scientists [Video] Minute Physics has a knack for explaining complicated scientific ideas and principles in a way that the average YouTube viewer can comprehend. Even when they tackle rocket science, a term synonymous with ... 0 Published 100 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Strapping a Giant Space Engine to a Crane Looks Fun [Video] It's important to test our space gear before it heads upwards—otherwise these things tend to break. But simulations can only go so far. This crazy looking rocket test gives scientists the full exper... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Girl Sneaked Into This Russian Military Rocket Factory [Image Cache] Her name is Lana Sator and she sneaked into one of NPO Energomash factories outside of Moscow. Her photos are amazing, like sets straight out of the next Alien movie. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Man Miraculously Saves His Life As Satellite Fragment Crashes Into His House [Rockets] Andrei Krivorukov got a wonderful Christmas gift today: his very own life. He saved it after a titanium ball from a Russian communication satellite crashed right into its house, escaping death by just a fe... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	That Space Ball In Namibia Is Not a Mysterious Alien Object [Aerospace] Those people on TV are all excited about that "mysterious ball" that has been discovered in Namibia. It fell from space! It's metallic! We are clueless! We don't know how to use Google! It must be ALIENS! ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
11	To Build a DIY Spacecraft is a Daunting Task – and Not Surprisingly – Getting It Up Where It Belongs – In Space Is No Less of a Problem I am happy to introduce yet another guest blog post. This time written by Copenhagen Suborbitals co-founder Peter Madsen. Here you go… Copenhagen Suborbitals works with ballistic spaceflight. That means we do not try to design a hypersonic space pl... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Navy Helicopters are Getting More Deadly with Infrared Rockets [Monster Machines] Destroying enemy vehicles would be a lot easier if the little SOB's would just sit still and take what's coming to them—what's coming being a 2.5-inch Hydra-70 rocket. But of course they don't, so th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Who Wouldn't Want a Twin-Engine Jet-Powered Harley? [Desired] It's like the Sons of Anarchy and Evel Knievel conceived a kinky lovechild while jumping over the Grand Canyon aboard rocket sleds. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Watch NASA Fire Up Its Rocket Engine of the Future [Video] You might think NASA's not doing a lot these days, what with the dismantling of the manned space program and everything, but they're still making explosions. Now there's video: the J-2X, which NASA says ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A Rocket Launch that Makes Me Feel like a Kid in 1969 [Video] This clip, created by Desrumaux Celine, is like watching the Apollo launches, but through the lens of a Hanna-Barbara Saturday morning cartoon. And then modernized to make it that much more spectacular. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Inside SpaceX: A Hint of Life After Space Shuttle << Previous \| Next >> ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	A Space Age Dream Deferred [Video] What you're seeing are the remains of the Aerojet-Dade rocket manufacturing plant, built in 1963, deep in the Everglades. "Space Miami" documents how the people there hoped to put a man on the moon, and ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	"Iron Curtain" Defense Computer Punches Rockets Out of the Sky [Video] Dodging an incoming RPG is a pretty tall task for anyone, unless you're a ninja on meth. For the rest of us, it'd easier to just blow the damn thing up before it hits, right? More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	One-Man Mini-Rocket Has Shaky Second Launch [Rockets] As the one-man Heat-1X rocket started to veer off course and outside the designated launch area, mission controllers cut the engine and ended the test flight well short of the 15-kilometer goal. Also, the... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Watching Space Shuttle Endeavor's Junk Parts Fall Back to Earth Is Worth 37 Minutes of Your Life [Video] If I didn't know any better, I'd think I was watching an experimental film and not footage of Space Shuttle Endeavor's last launch. At times, the visuals contained within the 37-plus minutes can only be ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Sixty Five Years Ago, America Successfully Launched the Nazis' Favorite War Machine [Techversary] The V-2 rocket terrorized the denizens of London throughout the end of World War II. The weapon, built by slave labor, struck the city over a thousand times, killing and injuring several thousand. After t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Is What Happens When Your Improvised Missile Truck Misfires [Image Cache] Libyan rebels continue a tenuous back-and-forth with Qaddafi's forces, bolstered by the occasional NATO fist from the sky. And it's a good thing they've got the ol' Treaty Organization behind them, becaus... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A Tribute to the Vostok 3KA: the Craft That Carried the First Man Into Orbit [Space] Everyone is paying tribute to cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin today, and with good reason: he was the first man to travel into space. But let's not forget the craft that got him there, the Vostok 3KA. More ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	SpaceX Teasing "Something Big" for April 5 [Video] SpaceX, already famous for sending the first private spaceship into orbit last year, is at it again. On April 5, the company is promising something big, but won't say what. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	NASA's Space Shuttle Train Is Basically a Giant, Moving Bomb... [Video] ...but it's actually very safe! And yes, NASA has a railroad. It's been around since 1963, actually—so apologies to space nuts who've known about it for a while—but only recently has the agenc... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Now This Is How You Retrieve Two Massive Solid Rocket Boosters from the Ocean! [Video] I still can't believe this is the first up-close, high-definition video of NASA retrieving the space shuttle's two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) form the Atlantic Ocean, and yet it is! The SRBs, in a word,... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Watch a Rocket Launcher Fail In Hilarious, Terrifying Fashion [Video] The best way to scare the stuffing out of new recruits? Fire up the ol' rocket launcher, but rig it so that the rocket in question just piddles out a few feet ahead. Nothing like presumed certain death t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Never Go Skiing Without Your Jetpack [Video] The worst part about skiing? The agonizing wait to get from the bottom of the hill to the top. Which is why I'm so glad we're finally introducing jetpacks to the slopes! Specifically, the two engines fro... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	NASA's Wish List [Nasa] With free-flying robots and antimatter engines, NASA's "wish list" doesn't read like the typical lists of wants and desires you might receive from a loved one. Which is great, because if NASA was jonesing... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Smallest and Most Precise Missile In the US Arsenal [Video] At only 2.75 inches in diameter, the Direct Attack Guided Rocket—DAGR, pronounced dagger—is designed to be the bread-and-butter air-to-surface weapon in the US arsenal. It's compatible with e... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	History's Daring Attempts at Rocket Vehicles [Rockets] Other than for blasting out of Earth's gravitational pull, the rocket-powered vehicle has never gone mainstream—kind of a shame, really! But lucky for us, LIFE has a gallery of some of the more exci... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Cosmic Bathroom Reading [Retromodo] Want to fly a Saturn V rocket? Easy! Just pick up one of these bad boys and get learnin'. Having an actual Saturn V rocket, launch pad and government clearance for such things also helps immensely. [Reddi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Second Time Is Not the Charm for India's ISRO Rocket Program [Disasters] For the second time this year an India Space Research Organizations (ISRO) rocket has failed spectacularly mere moments after launch. This most recent failure, captured for all time in this image, occurre... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Newly Discovered Molecule Will Make Rocket Fuel Super Efficient [Rockets] Swedish scientists have just discovered a new molecule—one that has the potential of boosting future rocket fuel efficiency by 20 to 30% compared to the best fuels around today. More »... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
237	SCIENCE SCIENCE flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into buildings. 1 Published 100+ days ago in Very Demotivational - The Demotivational...: Profile, Details
0	Three Russian GLONASS Satellites Are In the Pacific Following Catastrophic Rocket Launch [Disaster] Heads up, Hawaii! Three Russian GLONASS satellites just went into the Pacific drink courtesy a failed Proton-M rocket launch in Kazakhstan. Дерьмо! More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A Surefire Way to Ensure Cats Keep Off Roombas—For Life [Video] Roomba-riding cats are a real problem to society. Costing the taxpayer MILLIONS each year in emergency room visits, carpets are looking a right old state, with humans too scared to turn their robot vacuu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
11	Space Tourism’s Rubbery Rockets May Spur Climate Change Suborbital spaceflights that rely on rubber-based rocket fuel could shrink icecaps, alter the ozone layer and affect global temperatures, according to a new study. Yet the study authors’ assumptions about the number of rocket launches per year and the ch... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Watch a Tiny Boy Scout Launch 3,130 Rockets at Once to Smash a World Record [Video] You know what's cool? Launching 965 model rockets at once. You know what's cooler? Launching 3,130 model rockets at once. Boy Scout Jacob Smith honored the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts by blowing ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Rockoon Soars 40km in the Sky, But Has Further to Go if it Wants to Reach the Moon [Space] No, I'm not trying to say "raccoon" through a candy-filled mouth. That's really what Romania is calling their rocket-balloon, which is an entry in Google's Lunar X competition, to be the first vessel to s... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	China Shoots for the Moon [The Moon] On Friday, sometime around 1100 GMT, China sent a probe the moon. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	NASA's Biggest-Ever Solid Rocket Shakes Utah [Space] NASA's DM-2 rocket motor successfully fired for two minutes this week, pumping out a massive cloud of smoke while technicians carried out their tests. The first test is... are their earplugs in tight enou... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Internet Forum Users Plan Manned Space Launch [Space Race] The amateur rocketry scene is about to take one giant leap forward, thanks to a collection of volunteers who are planning to put a man into orbit. Via a home-made submarine-mounted floating launchpad. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Another Sky Spiral Appears, This Time Over Australia [Science] Sure, at this point we know what these things are, but they're still pretty insane to see up in the sky. More » Educational Resources - Australia - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - People ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details

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