October 2026
Winning the Space Race at home
... during the Cold War faced the same challenge in building legitimacy from their people. NASA, on the eve of the launch of Apollo 11, faced the question of whether the agency was just “blowing away taxpayer dollars...
28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
... a collision between two large bodies in the asteroid belt is unique in the last 3–4 billion years,” says Pavel Ševeček, a PhD student at the Astronomical Institute of Charles University who also participated in the study. With advances in numerical...
04 February 2018
Space Traffic Control
Space traffic control – the title of this book – has become a space-related catch phrase of the early 21st century. Its earthbound sister is the far-better-known air traffic control (ATC), which evokes airports, radars and controllers staring into ...
