Science

Project Cirrus – Hurricane Modification

Background Project Cirrus was the first attempt to modify a hurricane. It was a collaboration of the General Electric Corporation,…

March 26, 2015

Ball Lightning

Background Ball lightning is a debated and controversial atmospheric electrical phenomenon. The term refers to reports of luminous, usually spherical…

March 26, 2015

Anti-Satellite Weapons

Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. Currently, only the United…

March 4, 2015

Project Moon Dust

Background Project MOON DUST was an operation to recover objects and debris from space vehicles that had survived re-entry from…

March 4, 2015

Fastwalkers & Slowwalkers

Background "Fastwalkers" is a term created by the North American Aerospace Defense Command to classify Unidentified Flying Objects which enter…

March 3, 2015

Carl Sagan Papers

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and highly successful popularizer…

March 2, 2015

Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight

This is a volume consisting of scholarship on the current state of the discipline of space history presented in a…

March 2, 2015

Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery in…

March 2, 2015

Life on Europa

In 1997, frozen oceans and spewing volcanoes were found on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons in our…

March 2, 2015

Original Wizards of Langley

Background This overview and collection of documents and other material related to the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) offer a…

March 2, 2015