Sunday, January 26, 2014

Airbus 350 XWB Interior

I have pretty weird hobbies, and one of them is looking at the interior of airplanes. I always look up the interior of the plane I will ride when I go on trips. Anyways, I was looking up plane interiors and I stumbled across the Airbus 350 XWB interior. If I ever get to choose on what type of place I would like to ride, I'm going to choose the Airbus 350 XWB.





Here are the list of orders:

Most are due around 2017.

CubeSat

To those who need some info about the CubeSat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat

Already many high schools are developing CubeSats to lanuch into space. NASA is currently helping a few of those high schools. It would be awesome if Aviation High School would be able to build one.
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/november/nasa-helps-launch-student-built-satellites-as-part-of-cubesat-launch-initiative/#.UuXasBDTlD8

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

When We Left Earth- NASA Documentary

A few days ago I started watching a documentary called When We Left Earth. Its about the history of NASA accomplishing space missions. I'm on episode 5 (there are 6 episodes), and in my opinion it is one of the most interesting documentaries if you are interested in outer space and spacecrafts. Most documentaries are pretty interesting to me, but this one really makes the viewers get emotional. Not emotional as in it makes people teary, but when someone does something that messes up the whole mission you get worked up, and when a person makes a record or a mission is accomplished you feel really proud. It feels more like a very long movie chunked in parts. I don't know if it is still on Discovery Channel, but I watched it through Amazon.
A summary of the episodes so far:

  • Project Mercury
    • Alan Shephard
    • Liberty Bell 7
  • Project Gemini
    • Missions tested towards goal of traveling to moon
  • Apollo
    • Challenger tragedy
    • First man of moon
There is much more of a story than what I wrote. Just trying to spoil a lot.


Thursday, January 16, 2014

Friday, January 10, 2014

Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2

The Virgin Spaceship 2 (SS2) is a scaleplane (an airplane on Earth and spacecraft in space) that will be used for space travel and tourism. It holds a total of 8 people, and is about twice the size of the spaceship1. It had its first test flight in 2007, but had an explosion. On September 5th, 2013 it had another test flight quite successfully.

http://www.space.com/22660-virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-rocket-test.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipTwo