by Michael Belfiore | Sep 22, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
This summer, Flometrics launched a sounding rocket from the Mojave Desert powered by a 100% vegetable oil fuel. Flometrics president Steve Harrington tells me the rocket performed better than expected; the supersonic flight tore the tail fins off the sucker.The...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’m commuting to New York City this week to record the audio version of my book about DARPA, The Department of Mad Scientists, for Random House Audio.It will be available as an iTunes download when the print version releases, October 20.My director is Grammy...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 9, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
One of the great joys of my work is that I get to meet some truly extraordinary people. Fred Burton got wind of my upcoming book on DARPA and sent me a copy of his Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent.Ghost is one of the best books I’ve read in some...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 25, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
Tom Mueller Describes Merlin Enginebrought to you by LivescribeThis month’s issue of Popular Mechanics has a feature by me about Space Exploration Technologies, the startup that might just end up building America’s next orbital spaceship–and provide...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 22, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, launched in March and returning data since June, gets star billing on “Alien Earths” premiering on the National Geographic Channel tomorrow night at 9 PM Eastern and Pacific time.Launch footage, animation of the probe...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 17, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
The National Geographic Channel is showing a not-to-be-missed program on returning to the moon, this time to stay.Naked Science: Living on the Moon airs on Sunday, July 19 at 9:00 p.m. Pacific and Eastern time, the day before the 40th anniversary of the first manned...
