Alan Irwin’s Blog

I found this site where someone has posted a series of pictures documenting the steps of assembling a space shuttle. They’re pretty interesting.

Okay, what’s up with teens nowadays? Hot on the heels of the home spectrograph, I now find that another teen has been able to achieve nuclear fusion at his home. Using spare parts he bought from eBay, from hardware stores, and from just scrounging around he built his aparatus in his basement and actually achieved [...]

This is just a cool story. Mary Masterman is 17 years old and wins the Intel Science Talent Search for building an inexpensive spectrograph, which is a fairly sophisticated piece of equipment. For beating out 1700 other high school seniors in the 66th annual event, she wins a $100,000 scholarship. The design is pretty cool, [...]

Here’s an image I came across that’s pretty amazing. The New Horizons spacecraft is on its way to Pluto, but recently used Jupiter for a gravity assist along its way. While passing by, it got this amazing photo of Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. Io is one of the most active places in the [...]