Word: astronautical
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...expect before the launch of Mr. Tito, all the issues will be resolved." The response - he refused follow-up questions - would seem to indicate that Tito, who reportedly paid $20 million for the trip aboard a Russian Soyuz vehicle, will launch next Saturday and become the first "joy-riding" astronaut to rocket into space...
...device called the Supercritical Air Mobility Pack that allows firefighters and hazardous materials workers to be able to breathe longer with a greater margin of safety during emergency situations. In addition to these more technical innovations, NASA has brought us commonly-used products like Tang, Velcro and the Astronaut...
Despite these achievements, the last 30 years have seen a paucity of achievements in space exploration. As Astronaut Buzz Aldrin has said, “History will remember the inhabitants of the last century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the Moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit.” This slowdown can be attributed to the fact that NASA’s funding has been cut repeatedly, and ambitious programs have been scrapped for more cost-effective and passive endeavors...
What is a hermenaut? The word itself is a combination of hermeneutics, which might be defined as “the art or science of interpretation” or “the search for meaning,” and astronaut. You know what an astronaut is. And this gives us a working definition of a hermenaut: “a traveler in search of signification,” according to Joshua Glenn. Glenn is the founder of Hermenaut magazine, a bewildering and brilliant journal of philosophical inquiry and cultural criticism published out of Boston’s very...
...Blue Danube, some bizarrely diverse items would shoot weightlessly through the ether - sterling silver Jaguar cars, Sherlock Holmes first editions, Xerox networked printers, a pair of Madonna concert tickets, an ostrich-egg incubator - moving at a rate of 5 million purchases per day. The climactic scene, perhaps, would feature astronaut Dave and arrogant computer HAL bidding furiously against each other for a highly collectible Beanie Baby...