Reuben Trane knew the heating systems of his day could be better. So he set out to improve them. Trane (1886-1954), future president and chairman of The Trane Company, hated lugging heavy cast-iron ...

Launched in the summer of 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft were originally authorized for a brief journey to visit Jupiter and Saturn. Nearly five decades later, both probes are still ...

A reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang traveled to NASA’s ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Although there are scores of good AC brands that compete against each other in the HVAC market, a surprisingly high number of those brands are owned by just a handful of corporations. One of those is ...

Voyager 2 has been in space for almost 50 years, but it's not ready to retire just yet. NASA has recently made changes to its settings in an operation it called "Big Bang," allowing it to run and do ...

NASA engineers have found a clever way to squeeze more life out of Voyager 2, nearly half a century after it left Earth. In an operation nicknamed the “Big Bang,” the team simultaneously shut down ...

After a successful trial on Voyager 2, NASA plans to execute its “big bang” power diversion on humanity’s most distant space probe. Reading time 3 minutes Blitzing through interstellar space at over ...

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“Big bang” is not a phrase NASA typically wants for describing any of its space missions, let alone its beloved twin Voyager interstellar probes. But engineers have successfully performed a delicate ...

Nicknamed the “Big Bang,” the effort involved simultaneously turning off certain powered devices and substituting them with lower-power alternatives while ensuring the spacecraft remains warm enough ...

If you were enticed by the fate-shifting stories of Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown, you're in luck, as developer Gamexcite has just kicked off a new expansion pass for the space strategy game.