Bringing the Space Shuttle Enterprise to life started began even before the celebrated Apollo era and even before NASA was actually a thing. Prior to the national space program’s existence, there was NACA—the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. They were the first to contemplate a vehicle that could fly to space and back, landing horizontally […]
That Awkward Moment When: Aliens Land on Earth to Officially Greet Humanity
October 4, 2017So here’s the somewhat farfetched but not completely impossible scenario: An extraterrestrial race has crossed the expanse of space in their spaceships and arrived at Earth. They are highly intelligent with advanced technology that makes interstellar travel possible. From here, we’ll have to make some basic assumptions. Because they built an advanced spacecraft, they likely […]