Issue #2(2) 2014 Lounge

The vanity of machines

I was here – Rosetta’s self-portrait as it passes Mars, one of four planetary gravity assists needed to boost the spacecraft onto the trajectory to meet its target, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

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Infrared view from NASA’s NEOWISE mission of the Oort cloud comet C/2006 W3 (Christensen) as it travelled through the Sagitarius constellation, nearly 600 million kilometres from Earth, in April 2010. Science

Redefining the edge of the solar system

Space agencies and the armed forces are susceptible to conspiracy theories, largely due to the perceived lack of transparency concerning their activities. Above: Major Jesse A. Marcel holds a piece of foil-lined material related to the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO incident at Fort Worth Army Airfield, 8 July 1947 (Photo: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections Division). Astronautics

Winning the Space Race at home