The Raspberry Pi 5 in its official case.
Credit: Andrew Cunningham
The Raspberry Pi 5 in its official case.
Credit: Andrew Cunningham
We read about Andrew's experience with a few sub-$200 desktop PCs, but this story is where it all started. The spec sheet looked promising enough, with support for dual 4K displays at 60Hz and room for an internal PCIe SSD, but the experience wasn't what he'd hoped for.
Andrew's time using the Raspberry Pi 5 as a daily driver started off disappointingly, but once he adjusted his expectations he was pleasantly surprised by the experience.
If you're looking for the cheapest mini desktop PC possible, you'll have to look elsewhere, but if you want to see how far Arm Linux has come, read Andrew's article.
The STS-51-B mission begins with the launch of the Challenger from Pad 39A in April 1985.
Credit: NASA
The STS-51-B mission begins with the launch of the Challenger from Pad 39A in April 1985.
Credit: NASA
Being strapped into a small space and hurtled into space aboard a giant rocket must be an incredibly stressful experience. But sometimes the stress doesn't end with a successful launch. It's not often we can peek behind the curtains and glimpse an astronaut's mental state, so when we do, it's shocking.
“Hey, if you guys don't give me a chance to fix my instrument, I'm not going back,” said astronaut Taylor Wang during a Space Shuttle mission in 1985. Wang, the first Chinese-born person in space, led an experiment to set up on the behavior of liquid droplets in microgravity. When it didn't work from the start, Wang asked permission to troubleshoot and make repairs. When Mission Control denied his request, he uttered that chilling sentence.
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is lifted to be placed atop an Atlas V rocket for the first crewed launch.
Credit: United Launch Alliance
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is lifted to be placed atop an Atlas V rocket for the first crewed launch.
Credit: United Launch Alliance
Not only has there been a lot of Boeing in this top 20 list, there has been a lot of Boeing in the news all year. And most of that news was bad.
Eric Berger delves deep into the development of Starliner, outlines the problems and setbacks that plagued its development, and tries to answer the big question of how a company like Boeing, which for decades was at the top of human spaceflight, managed to do so. fell far behind the competition that didn't even exist twenty years ago?
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