America challenged private industry to develop new economical space transportation systems. It rose to the challenge and NASA now has two space transportation systems. SpaceX’s Falcon rocket and Dragon spacecraft and Orbital’s Antares rocket and...
An exclusive view of the highly-secure ISRO facility where Mangalyaan — India’s satellite to Mars – was born. The spacecraft has since successfully launched, please see our yesterdays post and the video at the...
India has launched a spacecraft to Mars orbit and hopes to become the fourth space agency to reach the red planet after the US, Russia ans Europe. The unmanned spacecraft will travel for 300 days...
Here is the last part of the early history of space. This time looking at a 1970s view of how the colonisation of Mars may occur.
We continue looking at the early history of spaceflight, this time looking at Skylab, the first joint US Soviet mission and the reusable space shuttle.
A look at some revolutionary ideas about travel in space, from ship designs to innovative methods of propulsion such as solar sails and laser beams. Also a look at antimatter as a power source...
America’s first astronauts and a look at the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes and America’s quest to land a man on the moon before the Russians.
We continue our series on the history of space. We look at Von Braun’s vision of space travel and its impact on the early rockets and spaceships. Also includes an interesting 1952 concept of...
Continuation of our series on the history of spaceflight. This time looking at Von Braun and rockets such as the V2.
First of six postings looking at the history of spaceflight from the early dreams of man to the eventual conquest of the heavens. We look at how these early dreams eventually became reality and...
Curiosity has confirmed the presence of water in the surface soil and we are finding out how similar Mars is to Earth. A look at some of the instruments on Curiosity and the disciveries...
How America is losing the next race to space. Countries such as China, India and Canada and even a rejuventated Russia are pouring incredible resources into space yet America’s timetable appears to be decades.
Bill Nye explains how NASA will successfully steer the Juno spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter. In the vast reaches of Space, being of course by even a single degree can have catastrophic result. Watch...
NASA hosted a news conference on Thurs., Sept. 12, 2013, to discuss NASA’s Voyager mission as Voyager 1 entered Interstellar Space. Includes the recording of sounds of Interstellar Space.
New data from NASA’s Voyager 1 indicates the probe has left the influence of the Sun’s bubble of charged particles and entered true interstellar space, after a 36-year odyssey through the Solar System, across...
An introduction to the NASA MAVEN mission, which is being launched in November 2013. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), will explore the planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun...
Following yesterdays post on the Mars Rover ‘Spirit’ we now present the full story of the two predecessors to ‘ Curiosity’. When the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity touched down on Mars in January...
With all the limelight taken up by Curiosity, it is easy to forget that of the two previous Rovers, Opportunity, is still going strong. However Spirit has not been heard from for over three...
