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Popular Mechanics
January 2009
Mike Allen |
Master Basic Welding Skills: A Step-By-Step Guide Welding is a delicate art, but once you learn it, ordinary steel becomes a blank canvas for invention. These steps will help you with any welding project.   |
Popular Mechanics
October 28, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches |
Popular Mechanics
November 18, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Hopes Stirring at NASA for Ares Engineering Vindication: Exclusive NASA engineers at Marshall Flight are cautiously optimistic that the fears about the under-construction Ares I rocket's propensity to shake violently have been overstated. |
Popular Mechanics
December 12, 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
NASA Will Tinker With Open-Source Rocket for Return to Moon The "brains" of the Ares I rocket that will be built by Boeing, but the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts. |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2008
Thomas D. Jones |
5 Years Later, 5 Hard Lessons From the Columbia Shuttle Disaster: Resident Astronaut As NASA readies Atlantis for a Feb. 7 launch to the International Space Station, it observes a week packed with painful memories of three spaceflight tragedies: Apollo 1, Challenger and the fifth anniversary of the loss of Columbia. |
IndustryWeek
April 14, 2011 |
GE Unveils Ultra Powerful High-Tech Laser Welding System The 20-kW hybrid laser arc welder will dramatically increase speed at which industrial products can be made and assembled. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2009 |
NASA & Its Discontents: Frustrated Engineers Battle with NASA over the Future of Spaceflight The economic crisis, growing tensions with Russia and political change in Washington are already prompting calls to rewrite the space agency's plan. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2007
Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon. |
Popular Mechanics
November 16, 2009 |
The Retirement of the Space Shuttle--And What's Next for NASA We look back at coverage of the technology behind the Constellation Program and the development of the International Space station as well as news surrounding the Space Shuttles |
Popular Mechanics
January 27, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
What Happens If NASA's Constellation Program Dies? Reporters at the Orlando Sentinel created a stir today by breaking news -- citing anonymous sources -- that President Barack Obama's budget will not include any funds for hardware for NASA's human space flight program. |
| AskMen.com |
NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. |
Fast Company
December 1, 2007
Charles Fishman |
To The Moon! (In a Minivan) How NASA and Lockheed Martin are building a successor to the Space Shuttle - using off-the-shelf technology and plain old pragmatism. |
Popular Mechanics
January 29, 2010
David Noland |
Rebel Engineers Sit With NASA to Chart Future of Manned Space President Obama will officially reveal his budget, and his plans for NASA, on Monday, Feb. 1. NASA officials deferred answers to questions until after the budget is released. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
David Noland |
Mission to the Moon: How We'll Go Back -- and Stay This Time From ensuring a safe launch to getting the vehicle back on the ground, here's an inside look at some of the toughest challenges NASA's engineers are now confronting with the new Orion shuttle. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
John Teresko |
Bookshelf: American Welding Society Welding Handbook, 9th Edition Volume 3, Welding Processes Welding Handbook, Volume 3, reflects the dramatic changes brought into welding processes over the past decade. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Tom Jones |
Launching NASA on a Path to Nowhere: Analysis The president released his FY 2011 budget Monday, and his policy for NASA's human spaceflight program sets the nation on a course to second-class status in space. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2009
John McHale |
Human Space Flight Gets Increase in 2010 NASA Budget Request NASA human space exploration programs, such as the Constellation program to return to the moon, receive increases in the 2010 NASA budget request, while space shuttle funding dwindles as NASA officials plan to retire the fleet in 2010. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2008 |
New Tech to Protect Spacecraft from Space Junk NASA scientists seeking other solutions to their current time-consuming processes of searching for small holes in spacecraft skin are focusing on new wireless technologies that can find tiny leaks by tracking vibrations across a spacecraft's metal skin. |
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2009
Rich Smith |
Wanna Bet on a Moonshot? If NASA doesn't decide to go to the moon, will Congress takes the Augustine Commission's advice to help subsidize private space-flight providers in hopes that will ultimately be the cheaper route for exploration? |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Vince Beiser |
Use Big Robots -- and Big Rockets Carolyn Porco has been criticizing the space program's shuttle-centric approach for years, and now the agency is finally listening to her. Here are points she would make if she were granted an audience with the president. |
Popular Mechanics
September 9, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Aldrin & Noland |
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives. |
IndustryWeek
March 17, 2010
Peter Alpern |
Opening New Doors with Welding Welding systems are growing faster, more accurate, more flexible, and easier to deploy, allowing them to impact new markets. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009
Hyneman & Savage |
15 DIY Workshop Tips from the Mythbusters Tools, ideas, and special fixes for updating your workshop |
Popular Mechanics
November 2007 |
Inside the Monster Garage With Jesse James A look inside the shop of one of the best custom motorcycle builders in the country. |
BusinessWeek
December 6, 2004 |
A Way To Weld Without The Waste Sparks shooting from robot welding machines: It's an iconic image of car manufacturing. But at Ford Motor, the shower of sparks is getting less intense, an indication of a major change in welding. |
