NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101
Portrait of Katherine Johnson. Credits: NASA Maybe you know her, and if not, it’s great that you’re reading this, let’s talk about an exceptional person, and mathematician. She helped calculate trajectories for NASA missions, using only her brain, pen and paper. This was before there were computers everywhere. She was extremely intelligent, having finished high […]
Is Coronavirus out of control?
Artist’s illustration of a Coronavirus. CREDIT: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Artists: Alissa Eckert, MS, Dan Higgins, MAM Coronavirus, or more correctly, COVID-19, is a disease that was detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and has started spreading to nearby countries, and in the last few weeks to the rest of the […]
Vacations on the Moon? Book in the near future
Credit: NASA Would you like to go on a vacation to the Moon? Or Mars? Well, it’s not possible yet, but it will surely be in the future. Isn’t that amazing? The Artemis program, named after the Greek goddess, is set to launch to the Moon on 2024. The first step will be to land […]
Solar Orbiter launched!
Hi, welcome to Draconiser blog, this is the very first post! ARTIST’S IMPRESSION OF SOLAR ORBITERCREDIT: ESA – C. Carreau So yesterday, (during the 2020 Oscars) the Solar Orbiter (called SolO), was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, it is a satellite that will be travelling to the sun with the objective of taking photos […]