Los Angeles Science lessons Articles, Los Angeles Science lessons News

Spaceflight Series: Lesson #8 – Atlas, Delta, Titan, and Saturn

THE ATLAS ROCKET – An Atlas rocket was first used to launch John Glenn’s Friendship 7flight in 1962 (the first American to orbit Earth)...

With the invention of gunpowder in the ninth century by the Chinese, the field of rocketry advanced rapidly. In thirteenth-century China, simple...

Although the design of a particular spacecraft is dictated by its specific mission, the general design of all spacecraft must overcome the same...

Space is a very different environment! In order to survive in such a strange environment, humans must protect themselves from the vacuum of space,...

Myths and tales of flying to the Moon or the stars are probably as old as humankind. One of the earliest accounts recorded was by a Greek named...

The meat-eating (carnivore) dinosaurs, like the Tyrannosaurus (“tyrant lizard”), had sharp, pointed teeth that curved backward and were...

Hurricanes are areas of low air pressure that form over oceans in tropical climate regions. Hurricanes are large, whirling storms. They may have a...