Tag space Exploration - results: 99
The InSight module successfully went to Mars
the First NASA mission that will investigate the Martian subsoil successfully started. Mars InSight module was launched on a rocket United Launch Alliance Atlas V and run it in several senses became historical. Besides the fact th...
He said, "let's Go!" he waved his hand. On the Day of cosmonautics!
12 April 1961 became a landmark for the history of mankind. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the spacecraft "Vostok-1" was launched from cosmodrome "Baikonur" and the world's first orbital committed circled the Earth. Flight in ne...
Run 2.0 solar sails into orbit this summer
the American non-profit organization Planetary Society, working on projects in the areas of astronomy, planetary science and space exploration, is going to spend this summer testing LightSail 2 – a new version of the solar sail, w...
The Indian space Agency is developing a lunar "needle" for future colonists
Indian space research organization began to study inexpensive, but practical ways of living built the lunar module. Previously, the team of scientists participating in the project had developed interplanetary space module that wen...
Space catapult SpinLaunch attracted $ 30 million investment
What if instead of launching cargo into space on the rocket we could throw it with a catapult? This ambitious and slightly crazy idea formed the basis SpinLaunch. In 2014 startup secret was founded by Jonathan Jani, who has previo...
How private companies can make money by "cheating" the ISS?
the Americans (in the person of the President, of course) want to stop funding the International space station by 2025. Our them, of course, support. Does this mean that both countries will stop sending people to orbit the Earth? ...
Bermuda triangle in space: a threat to astronauts?
"Before you become an astronaut, I listened to many stories about the astronauts who saw the white flash of radiation during a spacewalk," says Terry Virtsu, a former NASA astronaut. On the fifth night of his first flight mission ...
To make the planet a cleaner, you need to begin to develop the asteroids
the Extraction of useful materials on asteroids may seem like something out of the ordinary, but in fact companies and even some governments are already seriously considering this possibility. Why not: compared to the enormous tec...
10 disgusting facts about space travel
the Idea of traveling in space seems attractive. Many of us dreamed of becoming astronauts or even the first people on Mars, someone in his childhood, and someone still. Who wouldn't want to reach for the stars? And there are a fe...
"The Genesis project": the idea of artificial panspermia of our galaxy
Over the last ten years the mankind has greatly accelerated the pace of the search for planets outside the Solar system. No, on the one hand, this is certainly wonderful – a lot of new scientific information, but what are we gonna...
"The first space nation" put its own satellite into orbit
in the framework of the space mission supply Cygnus CRS OA-8E to the International space station to orbit the Earth was launched the satellite "Asgardia-1". If you are "asgardian", you can mark the date November 12 as the date to ...
If we can settle the life on outer space?
the galaxy's billions of worlds like ours. Do we need to send them the germ of life, to settle her throughout the cosmos? Claudius Gros Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, believes that it is necessary. For this, he proposes ...
Colonize or die out: why do we need Mars?
Some believe that we will stay on Earth — people will cease to exist. In an article published in June, Elon Musk has warned of the inevitability of space: life on Earth will disappear if we will not mnogoletnim. There are tw...
The ground crew of the "spacecraft" SIRIUS "flew" to the moon orbit
Not long ago the experiment was started. In the framework of flight simulation to the moon was created «space ship» SIRIUS (International Scientific Research in Unique Terrestrial Station). This international project has...
10 important missions in the history of NASA
Since half a century ago created the National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA, NASA), it has launched hundreds of missions into space. Since the probes that touched the borders of our Solar system to manned capsules tha...
10 amazing facts about "Sputnik-1", dedicated to his 60th anniversary
October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union stunned the whole world by launching into space the first artificial satellite. This week we're celebrating its 60th anniversary. A small ball that transmits a radio signal, caused panic among ordi...
The Australian government plans to create its own space Agency
Australia hosts the international Astronautical Congress. At the ceremony of its opening in Adelaide was made by the Minister of education, Senator Simon Birmingham. In his welcoming speech, he mentioned about the plans of the gov...
Are you afraid of aliens? And scientists – no
Imagine what it would be like to meet intelligent aliens who found us and came to Earth. Just remember the movie "independence Day" and other, cheap, but exciting fighters with big-headed aliens, similar to humans. Regardless of, ...
Voyager: the greatest of all space missions
In 1977 he began the mission two spacecraft that changed our understanding of the Solar system and will soon become our message into the unknown. Richard Hollingham with the BBC spoke about the legacy of the "Voyagers" 40 years af...
Interstellar travel will be possible sooner than you think
once humanity had ambitions that have led to such incredible projects as the first manned flight into space or a mission to the moon. The next step will be colonization of planets, and then interstellar travel. Initiative Breakthr...