July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... where they've flown their version of Skylab", says Roger Handberg, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida, comparing Tiangong 1 to the US's first space station. The diminutive Skylab launched in 1973 and, along with the...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... data relay support for ground assets at Mars. On 18 November 2013, the mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas V rocket and was inserted into Mars orbit on 21 September 2014. Three views of an escaping atmosphere, obtained...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... of life. As a NASA spokesman once wryly observed, the best way to find life on another planet is to import it from Florida.10 There are also broader environmental issues, as yet unforeseen, which could have profound repercussions for any...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... rocket carrying NASA’s Kepler spacecraft blasts off from Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:49 p.m. EST on 6 March 2009. Ron’s analysis demonstrated that we needed to collect a lot more data in order to recover the...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
... thing is - he actually created his own UFO! Astronaut John H. Glenn wearing a Mercury pressure suit at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during preflight training activities for his Mercury- Atlas 6 flight in 1962. He made America’s first manned Earth...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... further the objective of attracting private capital to their territories. The landscape at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida is gradually changing with commercial companies like Boeing and SpaceX appearing on once exclusively government territory...
