It was plagued with problems from the start but it turned out to be one of the most important influential space programs we have ever done. Skylab unintentionally showed us that we could fix major unexpected problems working in space and that we could survive in space for long periods of time and paved the way for the ISS. This is the story of Skylab, the first and so far only US space station. This video is sponsored by Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More…

NASA is due to return to the moon in 2024 but before they can do that they will need the new spacesuits which they have been developing for 14 years, trouble is it looks like that’s not going to happen. In this video, we look at NASA’s spacesuit from Apollo to the ISS and why they need a new one, and why that causing such a problem. This video is sponsored by Morning Brew http://cen.yt/mbcuriousdroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

Neil Armstrong’s biggest fear about the Apollo missions was a solar occurring during the mission and although none of the missions was affected by such an event they were lucky through timing rather than anything else. This video looks at what might have happened if they might not have been so lucky and how we are trying to mitigate such effects happening on the upcoming Artemis lunar program in 2024. This video is sponsored by MagellanTV https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

In many ways, the story of the Wild Weasels is the story of the beginnings of electronic warfare between the radar crew on the ground and the weasels in the air. This was also the first time that electronics had been used to find targets actively during a mission rather than predetermined beforehand, and of course, this was matched only by the bravery of the men required to fly down a radar beam and put the site out of action before the missile got them. This video is sponsored by Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To…

What do you do when the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) makes you an offer you can’t refuse?. Well in the case of NASA you update an existing design to create a Hubble on steroids that can cover the same amount of sky as one hundred Hubble’s, drastically cutting down the time survey the sky and also more accurately look for Neptune sized planets around nearby stars and gather evidence to hopefully find out what dark energy really is, this is NASA upcoming Roman space telescope. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website.…

The transportation of radioactive material is much more common than many people think because it’s not just spent nuclear fuel and warheads that need to the moved but how safe are and shipments of radioactive materials on the public transport systems. This video is sponsored by Blinkist   Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

What is faster than the fastest hypersonic missile?, well a beam of light, microwaves or subatomic particles but they are impossibly small and have almost no mass compared to a projectile. However, if you have enough energy you can make a weapon that works at the speed of light and in theory can shoot down anything projectile weapon we have now. So why don’t we have phasers like in Star Trek?, in this video we look at Directed Energy Weapons and what they can do now and in the future. Mike DoddI have a wide range of views and opinions. I have worked in a number of industries some of…

The major nuclear powers have used ICBM’s as the mainstay of their defence strategy for 60 years or so and even built some form of anti-ballistic shield to protect against. But in the last decade or so a new type of hypersonic missiles have been developed that promises to make ICBM’s redundant but will they just fuel a new arms race as everyone one struggles to make them work in a reliable manner. So how do they compare to the decades-old tech of ICBM’s and are they any better? Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest…