Tag: Space and Flight

• 12.24.07

  The Quiet Zone

  One of the Few Places Left Where Wireless is Regulated In the remote hills of Virginia and West Virginia, a 13,000-square-mile area is one of the few places in the US where wire-less communications are not allowed. It's called the Quiet Zone. Astronome

• 12.24.07

  Electromagnetic Traffic Jam

  Wireless Transmissions are Tripping over Each Other as the Airwaves get more Crowded In the13,000-square-mile chunk of Virginia and West Virginia known as the Quiet Zone, technicians are at work every day tracking down and shutting down any electronic g

• 12.17.07

  Space Junkyard

  Second-hand Space Parts may take us Back to the Moon Norton Sales, a salvage yard and spare-parts shop on a rough industrial strip in North Hollywood, California, looks like the kind of place you'd go on a weekend afternoon to find a replacement item for

• 11.19.07

  Where's My Rocketbelt?

  The Cult of the Personal Jet Pack Lives On If there's one enduring iconic image of the techno-utopian world of tomorrow, it's the rocket belt. For three quarters of a century, comics, films, TV, and books have told us that in the future we'd all be rocke

• 11.15.07

  Transcript: Franklin Chang-Diaz Extended Interview

  Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz has been in orbit more times than most people have been in airplanes. Since 1986, he's logged over 1,600 hours on board the Space Shuttle. Now, retired from NASA, he's President and CEO of the Ad Astra Rocket Company. At faci

• 11.12.07

  Satellite Shopping

  How to Get Your Own Satellite Adam Rogers has the same problem a lot of us do these days: a whole lot of data coming in. Cell phones, blogs, email, downloaded movies and music, a DVR full of TV shows. His solution for handling it all: get himself his ow

• 11.12.07

  Franklin Chang-Diaz: Astronaut and Rocket Scientist

  Powering a Manned Mission to Mars and Beyond Like a lot of kids growing up during the dawn of the space age, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz dreamed of humanity exploring and inhabiting space.  Unlike most of those kids, however, Chang-Diaz has spent his ad

• 11.12.07

  Who'll Take Out the Space Trash?

  The Growing Mess of Orbital Debris Threatens Satellites, Space Missions - and your Roof As WIRED SCIENCE's Adam Rogers mulls launching his own satellite (you can watch the process here), he's got more than just the half-billion dollar price tag to worry

• 11.7.07

  Transcript: Paul Diamandis Extended Interview

  The fact that lots of other organizations, NASA and DARPA just to name two, are adopting the competition model, is a real victory for our guest today. Peter Diamandis trained as a medical doctor but now he has his hands in a bunch of space related busines

• 11.5.07

  X-Prize

  Huge Cash Prizes are Pushing Science Forward like Never Before At the annual Wired NextFest, held this year in Los Angeles, aerospace entrepreneur Peter Diamandis announced that we're going back to the moon - courtesy of Google. The Internet colossus is

• 11.5.07

  Peter Diamandis: Space Entrepreneur

  Revolution Through Competition Peter Diamandis has a motto: “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.”  For Diamandis, the future is best created through competition.  Founder of the X Prize Foundation, Diamandis

• 10.22.07

  Experiment Cave

  Scientists Search for Remnants of the Sun Deep Underground This summer's feature movie Sunshine portrays Earth 50 years into the future, when scientists discover the sun is failing and humanity is doomed. While the scenario is certainly fantastical, it&r

• 10.22.07

  Meteorite Hunters

  Searching for Space Rocks in Kansas Every year, thousands of asteroids sneak into our atmosphere, breaking up into smaller rocks that sometimes make it all the way to the ground. Most of the time, they go unnoticed, but once in a while, a big one gets th

• 10.22.07

  DIY UAVs

  Self-flying Aircraft Aren't Just for the Government Any More Radio-controlled airplanes have been in the hands of hobbyists for decades, but until recently only NASA and the military had UAV's -- unmanned aerial vehicles that can fly autonomously, with n

• 10.22.07

  UAVs: A Threat In the Skies?

  Why Pilots are More Scared Than Excited About Unmanned Aircraft To technology geeks, the thought of a sky dotted with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles might seem like the coolest thing in the world. But to a lot of pilots, the prospect is a scary one. When a tin

• 10.20.07

  Destination: Earth

  Will an Asteroid Hit Us? Having the good fortune to uncover a meteorite buried in the ground in Kansas is pretty awesome, but it implies the obvious: At some point, a huge asteroid crashed into Earth. And if it has happened before, occasionally with deva