Space Fact #10: The First Airline Flight Cost $400
/The first commercial flight took place on New Year’s Day, 1914, with a ticket price of $400.
Read MoreThe first commercial flight took place on New Year’s Day, 1914, with a ticket price of $400.
Read MoreOrdered by Congress to serve a stimulating function, the agency has a technology transfer (T2) program designed to push out the information ore to the private sector as rapidly as possible. Its T2 website, technology.nasa.gov, serves as a kind of engineering eBay, a catalogue of tempting technologies available for licensing.
Read MoreThe truth is, NASA would be invisible even if you doubled its budget. That's how skewed the public's view of space is.
Read MoreWe could go to Mars with robots alone and still conduct good science. But that approach will never get us to Mars; and we happen to be humans, not robots
Read MoreSometime in this century, people will be flying autonomous aircraft—the equivalent of the self-driving car. Personal air vehicles, perhaps powered by electric batteries, can help relieve our overcrowded airports, save land, and minimize emissions.
Read MoreIf I were king, I would set our nation’s space program on a trajectory that would inspire not just the international community but our own youth.
Read MoreThe private sector funds just 18% of basic research in this country.
Read MoreOver the last 100 years, brave Americans on the battlefield and industrious Americans back home played a major role in making the world’s citizens more free, secure, and prosperous. For most of that time, most of the world viewed us as—mostly—a force for good. Now we have another battle to fight.
Read MoreIt really wasn’t that long ago when the two greatest superpowers were vying to put satellites into space. Now, 50 nations have their own satellites in low Earth orbit. If you’re a Thailand, say, you can call Space Systems/Loral, a Canadian-owned company based in Palo Alto, California, and tell them you want to put a satellite into geostationary orbit for television broadcasting or military communications. You can have the thing in orbit 25,000 miles above Earth within two years.