MAKE 24

MAKE Volume 24: Space

MAKE Volume 24: Space

MAKE blasts into orbit and beyond with our DIY SPACE issue. Put your own satellite in orbit, launch a stratosphere balloon probe, and analyze galaxies for $20 with an easy spectrograph! We talk to the rocket mavericks reinventing the space industry, and renegade NASA hackers making smartphone robots and Lego satellites. Of course, as usual, we’ve got a full payload of other cool DIY projects, from a helium-balloon camera that’s better than Google Earth, to an electromagnetic levitator that shoots aluminum rings, to a simple stroboscope that takes the most amazing freeze-frame photos. Plus: party-pleasing automated photo booth that prints out photo strips, MythBusters’ Adam Savage teaches you hard-shell moldmaking, and much more.

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Saturday Morning Science in Space

Saturday Morning Science in Space

Though most of the week was busy with research and maintenance on the International Space Station, Don Pettit used the micro-g environment to conduct and document a series of fun experiments for kicks, which he called Saturday Morning Science.

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