NASA’s X-59 Plane: The Future of Supersonic Travel and Reducing Sonic Booms

NASA’s X-59 Plane: The Future of Supersonic Travel and Reducing Sonic Booms

NASA’s X-59 plane aims to reduce the sonic boom to a thud. Ah, the glory days of travel, when the places were bigger, the food was better, and you could cross the Atlantic in less than three hours. Since the end of the Concorde in 2003, quickly crossing the Atlantic is a thing of the … Read more

Lunar Codex: A Global Collection of Art Bound for the Moon

Lunar Codex: A Global Collection of Art Bound for the Moon

“Quiescence” by Rosario Bitanga-Peralta (pictured) is one of more than 30,000 works of art included in the Lunar Codex, which physicist, artist and businessman Samuel Peralta intends to send to the moon. Rosario Bitanga/Samuel Peralta The second manned moon landing mission – Apollo 12 in 1969 – had a secret payload attached to one of … Read more