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 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...
by Bill D'Zio | Jun 13, 2020 | All space related, Beyond Earth Orbit, Space Agencies, Space Money
Astronomers dealt with a major several problems since the inception of astronomy. First, objects give off electromagnetic radiation. The human eye’s ability to detect the visible spectrum restricts us from seeing other electromagnetic...
by admin | May 25, 2020 | All space related, Space Agencies, Stuff in Orbit
Japan launched its last ISS resupply mission with the HTV. For the ISS, this week looks very busy. An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut used a Canadian robotic arm to capture a Japanese spacecraft. JAXA launched the HTV-9 mission to resupply the...
