A couple of my favorite maquettes. X-Wing Luke Skywalker by Gentle Giant & Zero Suit Samus Aran by First 4 Figures.
Luke Skywalker and Samus Aran
Games in Space
Some of you who grew up in the 90s, as we at UPT did, may remember the Wing Commander computer games. Fighting against the feline-esque Kilrathi you were aboard a…
Vintage 1977 NASA Video talks about Voyager 1
On September 12, 2013, NASA officially announced that Voyager 1 had left the solar system and begun it’s journey into interstellar space. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar medium. As of August 2013, it is 125 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun. One AU is equivalent to the average distance of the Earth to the Sun, roughly 145.5 billion miles. Voyager is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth.
As a throwback to the year Voyager 1 was launched, we found NASA’s Highlights of the 1977 Aeronautics and Space Report. The report outlines some of NASA’s projects at the time, including the Space Shuttle, Voyagers, Landsat, Spacelab, HEAO-1 and energy research.
Around the World – Honduras and Cozumel
Recently I took a cruise to Honduras and Cozumel. Thought I could share the trip and some of the pictures I took. Upon arriving in Honduras we took a van…
Video Game High School
Imagine being graded on how well you can dish out headshots, capture the flag, or getting homework on forcing your APM up. There’s a silent wish of every gamer growing up that they could go to school to play video games, a new webseries named Video Game High School written by Matthew Arnold, Will Campos and Brian Firenzi fulfills that wish.
Moon and Night Photo Calculator
Like astrophotography? Use this Moon and Night Photo Calculator to help achieve the perfect cosmic conditions for all your spacey shots.
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“The City of 7 Billion” wins $100,000 Latrobe Prize
The grant is named for architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The Latrobe Prize is awarded biennially for research leading to innovations in architecture.