Moscone Center Expansion Links, Enlarges Spaces Below and Above

New Home for the Maid: Rockfalls, Talus, and the Race for a Dry Dock
The Maid of the Mist Corporation (MOTMC) has operated the iconic Maid of the Mist boats beneath Niagara Falls since the early 1900s. Traditionally, the company has provided trips from...

Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission By Marc Kaufman. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2014

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything By Colonel Chris Hadfield. New York City: Little, Brown and Company, 2013

Historically Protected Structure Suspended in Time and Space

Engineers: From the Great Pyramids to the Pioneers of Space Travel Edited by Adam Hart-Davis. New York City: DK Publishing, 2012

Datong Art Museum Will Feature Pyramidal Space Truss Roof

Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission by Andrew Kessler. New York City: Pegasus Books, 2011

NewsBriefs: Entrepreneur Developing Spacious Inflatable Moon Base

NewsBriefs: Boeing Creates Partnership Aimed At Commercial Space Travel (CNN and Boeing)

Grout Hole Layout
The drilling method, either rotary or percussion, and the type and size of the drills to be used are selected based on such factors as rock type, depth of holes required, working space...

NewsBriefs: Texas-Based Firm to Construct Orbital Refueling Station (SPACE.com)

Corebits: Allied Organizations � In Memoriam; See our Planet from Orbit in Earth From Space

Buzz Aldrin to Deliver Special Lecture at ASCE Earth and Space Conference

Special Structures: Past, Present, and Future
Special structures are landmarks and testimonials to the achievements of the structural engineering profession. They are true three-dimensional...

Engineering, Design and Construction of Lunar Bases
How do we begin to expand our civilization to the Moon? What are the technical issues that infrastructural engineers, in particular, must address? This paper has the goal of introducing...

NewsBriefs: ESA Exploring Road Transportation Design (European Space Agency)

Metamorphosis
Ranked as one of the 15 tallest buildings in New York, the headquarters of the Bear Stearns Companies, Inc., is a 45-story skyscraper that is 815 ft (248 m) tall. Replacing an existing...

Rethinking Bangkok's Wastewater Strategy
In the past 10 years the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has spent $1 billion developing a major wastewater collection and treatment program for the city of Bangkok. The city is presently...

Above Them All
The design for what would be the next world's tallest building relies on a 1,550 ft (472 m) high concrete core that will give occupants of the top floors of the building unimpeded...

 

 

 

 

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