The Engines That Came in from the Cold

2001-III-1 | Channel 4 | 50 min | Written and directed by Dan Clifton

The first of a new run of Channel 4's science documentary strand, this film tells the story of how the Russians, at the height of the Cold War space race, developed a very remarkable kind of rocket engine. Not only was the technology different from that used by the Americans, it was actually better. When half a dozen of these engines were rediscovered 20 years after they were built, they were found - to the amazement of the American rocket design establishment - to be superior in power to anything NASA had come up with in the intervening decades. What's more, they worked. Now, incredibly, Russian engines are being used to launch American rockets. 

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JFK - "We choose to go to the Moon"

50 years ago on september 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy, president of the United States gave a speech that would inspire many generations to come, of not only Americans, but citizens from all over the world. Here the article form Gizmodo.

Lego Cuusoo

Lego Cuusoo is the ultimate place on the internet for any Lego inventor. You can upload your creations and get supporters. If you achieve 10.000 supporters, the Lego company will review your project and if everything goes well, transform it to an official Lego product. This was the case of Daisuke's Hayabusa project. If the project is approved, a Lego designer is assigned to the idea and after redesigning it, the model its commercialized, with the 1% of the total revenues going to the original designer. Above a comparison of the Hayabusa model as created by Daisuke and the final Lego release.

Over the years  awesome projects have been selected in Lego Cuusoo. One of those projects which  has recently reached the 10.000 supporters and therefore will be review it by Lego, is this  Back To The Future Delorean set  created by M.Togami that offers the three variations of the car as seen in the Back To the Future Trilogy.

Stay tuned to Lego Cuusoo there are new entries everyday. Creator from all over the world are submitting amazing projects like this one: The Star Wars Sand-crawler:

NASA the Sagan series

Yesterday someone posted this great video on facebook. What make me think of using the NASAs "A" for the logo of the blog that I'm designing.

The Right Stuff 25th anniversary

25 years ago, on October 21, 1983, one of the greatest movies of all time was released in North America. Directed by Philip Kaufman and with music by Bill Conti this epic film narrates the space race that took place on the sixties between the URSS and the USA. 2 Disc DVD Special Edition available in in Amazon US / ES / JP