Physical Science

If UFO stands for Unidentifiable Frying Objects, it is way too late to be thinking about prevention! These hamburgers are killing us! But, well, you know, it is the Unidentified Flying objects that we refer to by the shortened “UFO.”…
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The Gemini program was an extension of the Mercury project leading to the Apollo manned space flight programs required to execute President John F. Kennedy’s proposed manned lunar landing by the end of the decade. The Gemini program set intermediate…
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The Mercury Project is the very beginning of man traveling into space. It was this project that made the term” Astronaut” a household word. They came up with the word as a variation to the balloonist who were called Argonauts…
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On a spring day in 1983, I excused myself from a college class I was teaching and went outside. Actually, the students went with me and stared in disbelief at their crazy teacher, a ham radio operator, who held a…
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Astronauts perform a myriad of types of jobs in space, from military, private and business affairs to the building, maintaining and repairing of the International Space Station (ISS). The launching, repairing and maintenance duties for objects like the Hubble Telescope,…
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Six days after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created on October 1, 1958, The Mercury Program came into being. NASA was created in response to the Soviet Union’s October 4, 1957 launch of the satellite Sputnik. The…
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It’s mystifying. It’s mesmerizing. It’s the aurora borealis, or, more simply, the northern lights. This brilliant display lights up the night skies of northern Canada from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to the far northern reaches of Quebec. At times…
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Neptune, the eighth most-distant planet in the solar system, is unique: its existence was first calculated mathematically, before it was ever located by astronomers. As the last of the gas giants, it is now the farthest planet in the solar…
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Since the 1990s, the increasingly rapid discovery of extrasolar planets (planets orbiting other stars) has turned the traditional division of planets into rocky or terrestrial planets (like Earth and Mars) and Jovian planets or gas giants (like Jupiter and Saturn)…
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Almost all of the planets in our Solar System have been discovered visually, by astronomers – including Pluto (no longer officially a planet), although in that case it took the added assistance of some photographic plates. The exception is Neptune,…
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