Space Agencies
It’s Not a New Space Race
"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 this competition imply a...
Decision: Apollo 8 To The Moon
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 culture....
Great Britain’s Vertical Empire
"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 on the Moon....
America’s First Space Station
"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 believed that...
JWST is no comparison to Hubble Space Telescope, here is why.
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 radiation. Second, distant...
HTV-9 mission arrives at ISS prior to SpaceX Dragon
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 ISS on 20...
NASA’s doomsday Asteroid plan taking shape, and they are not calling Bruce Willis this time.
What happens if an asteroid hits Earth? Bruce Willis might have saved the world by blowing up a nuclear device on an asteroid in the film Armageddon. In the movie, Bruce Willis heroically sacrifices his life, breaking the killer Asteroid in two. But this time,...
Did Japan’s Asteroid space probe find life and shoot it with a bullet?
The Hayabusa 2 ion engine fired up today, May 12, at 7:00 JST (onboard time). Aboard the spacecraft, samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu which orbits the sun between the planet Mars and Jupiter. The collection of samples that may contain the evidence of life...
Is China’s inflatable space tech a $400 Million Cost savings for NASA’s SLS?
New spacecraft experience setbacks all the time. SpaceX Starship prototype violently disassembled several times. Boeing launched the CST-100 but ended up in the wrong orbit. China isn’t a stranger to setbacks either. China tested a prototype spacecraft on May 5th,...
NASA’s SLS Mega Rocket’s Engines are Mega Cost…
NASA plans to launch the most powerful rocket sometime in the next few years. The rocket experienced delays and cost overruns which keeps NASA pushing the debut out. The goal is still, bring America along with allies into deep space for longer and farther than ever...
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