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Space Designer-Designed Birdhouses | |||
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Brand Griffin | |||||||||||||||||||
Brand Griffin is recognized as one of the leading designers of manned spacecraft. Prior to starting his own company, he worked with Boeing for 12 years where he designed spacecraft and planetary rovers. He was awarded three NASA fellowships at the Jhonson Space Center and currently is department chair with International Space University. | |||||||||||||||||||
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This birdhouse is designed in the shape of pendulum, and it sways under its own weight reflecting the Earth's axial rotation. It also functions as a weight used by surveying engineers, and points to the center of the Earth by the action of gravity. This suggests that what we call "zero-gravity condition" in space does not mean there is no gravity but the condition in which all the forces are well balanced. | |||||||||||||||||||
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