Taikonauts have been in space for a few years now, intermittently, and the Chinese space program is definitely racing ahead to catch up with the United States program, but India’s Chandrayaan-1 is surely destined for a different research direction. As an engineer associated at some point with the aerospace industry, I can feel a lot [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Robotics’
July 3, 2008
Wall E
Pixar seem to out-do themselves each time they make a movie, and this started with Toy Story, way back in the 1990s. There have been so many animated films of late in Hollywood, that it makes you wonder how many of them are good quality. I saw the trailer of Kung Fu Panda and picked [...]
April 4, 2008
Robotics Idea Musings (from an errant start)
What’s it going to be now? It has been two years of aerospace engineering, three years of automotive engineering in various areas spanning CAD, manufacturing engineering, ISO systems, CMMI, Six Sigma.
Maybe I should get the Green Belt Certification done first, given that my exam is in June. That should really give me some direction in [...]
March 17, 2008
Astrophotography
I remember the old high school days when I used to do a lot of star gazing, and with a small set of star maps, I had observed a handful of constellations that I knew intimately. I have forgotten most of what I did then, but recent events (and several Horizon documentaries about space and [...]
February 27, 2008
Moon X-Prize
Nice idea. But the engineering is not worth the effort. How I would love to sit down, not be interrupted by anything, learn how to design a spacecraft. The experience of designing an airplane is exhilarating and sometimes painstaking, and overall quite rewarding.
Google knows about as much about spaceflight or lesser than John [...]
