by Carl Rossi | Jul 26, 2020 | All space related, Beyond Earth Orbit, Launch, Space Agencies, Space History
“We want a new space race – space races are exciting”. Elon Musk after successful launch of Falcon Heavy. Background China and the United States are fierce competitors in economics, technology, military and recently in space exploration. Does...
by Carl Rossi | Jul 13, 2020 | All space related, Beyond Earth Orbit, Launch, Space Agencies, Space History
Background The flight of Apollo 8 is an historical watershed in the course of human spaceflight. Its circumlunar mission which climaxed in a dramatic television broadcast on Christmas Eve 1968, marked a point in time when humanity became a true spacefaring...
by Carl Rossi | Jul 5, 2020 | All space related, Launch, Space Agencies, Space History
“Ground Control To Major Tom.”A Space Oddity, David Bowie British Rocketry After the end of World War II, British space technology held its own against the bigger, better funded US and Soviet Union programs. The UK had its sights set on landing astronauts...
by Carl Rossi | Jun 29, 2020 | All space related
Background Mars, the Red Planet, named for the Roman god of war because its color represented blood. The planet has been a source of mystery since the ancient Sumerians who believed that Mars was Nergal, the god of war and plague. Later, in Mesopotamian texts,...
by Carl Rossi | Jun 21, 2020 | Space Agencies, Space History, Stuff in Orbit
“Get your ticket to that wheel in space.”Lyrics from I.G.Y. by Donald Fagen Background Early SciFi images of a Wheel in Space In popular Science Fiction space stations were a common theme. Arthur C. Clarke and other early advocates of manned space flight...
