Tag: history

The Perils of High-Altitude Warfare

June 6, 2024

Suspended in a small turret below a bomber flying at 10 kilometers altitude in freezing temperatures, ball turret gunners faced death every moment as they fired at enemy planes. Only 40% of those who went on these missions returned alive, the rest falling victim to enemy fire in the sky. These gunners had no parachutes…

76 years ago on October 24, the first picture of Earth was taken from space.

October 26, 2022

This black and white image was captured by a 35 mm camera lens carried by a V-2 rocket from an altitude of 105 km. This rocket is also the first man-made object to cross the Kármán line. Although the rocket and the camera were destroyed, they said their goodbyes leaving only the film in the…

See this smiling man.His name is harold agnew

August 1, 2022

It’s not about your smile, it’s about the small box in your hand.That small box contains the nuclear fuel from the bomb Fatman. which killed about 75,000 people in Nagasaki.

Spinosaurus.

March 22, 2022

Now in the territory of North AfricaSpinosaurus is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaurs that lived from the Cenomanian to the Late Cretaceous to the Upper Turonian, about 99 to 93.5 million years ago. The name means Spine Lizard. The Spinosaurus was the largest of all known terrestrial carnivores to date.

Pterosaurs Evolution

February 14, 2022

The flying giant Peterosaurs, which coexisted with the dinosaurs, does not belong to the category of birds and bats. Can be replaced with flying reptiles. These are the first flying vertebrates. That is, after a long debate, scientists say that peterosaurs, dinosaurs, and crocodiles evolved from another common genus (from Archosaurs). The flying giant Quetzalcoatlus…

Saturn v

December 16, 2021

A rocket – ??? m high, about 36 m tall – weighs 2.8 million kilograms, including fuel. Capacity to carry 130 tons of material in Earth’s orbit. Ability to carry up to 50 tons of material to the moon. Remember the shrimp movie was running here. The rocket that landed the man on the moon…

December 16, 1965

December 16, 2021

56 years ago today, Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford lifted off on Gemini 6. They would go on to perform the first-ever rendezvous of two spacecrafts in orbit.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 4,500-year-old pot in southern Turkey.

October 7, 2021

The handicraft was discovered by a team of researchers led by Isabella Caneva, an archaeologist at the Italian University of Lease. Archaeologist Isabella Caneva says the pot is as old as the Middle Bronze Age. The ancient jar was found with many jugs and food fossils. Archaeologists have unearthed ancient pottery from the ancient settlement…

DNA from mummies, the science that reconstructed the ‘human’ 2797 years ago ……

October 6, 2021

Science reconstructs the faces of three Egyptians believed to have lived 2797 years ago. These human forms were reborn over millennia using genetic information obtained from their mummies. The mummies are believed to have been buried in the ancient city of Cairo between 780 BC and 5 AD. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in…

Space and everything related to it is amazing. Many events recorded in the pages of human history have occurred

October 4, 2021

The most popular image in space history in the United States is from the challenger (STS-41-B) mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center on February 3, 1984. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II is engaged in the first untethered spacewalk, very high above the Earth. What frightens a man the most is the emptiness of space and…