February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...’. But in an era when much of this understanding reflects back on our home planet, there is much that the history of space exploration can teach us about our responsibility for the terrestrial environment. Jacques Arnould takes a philosophical look...
September 2023
From the Earth to Mars
... international author Jeffrey Manber retells the history of space exploration, from when the first visionaries realised the timeless dream of rocket travel in the early 1900s to the similarities of the space communities that erupted first in Russia...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... and procedures, hiring and training the newcomers in the flight control team. Never before in the history of space exploration had a space probe reached a comet and tried to orbit around it. The flight dynamics and overall flight operations...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...Woomera. While Australia is not considered a significant spacefaring nation, it has a long history of space activities stretching back to the beginnings of the Space Age Space-related highlights include Black Arrow and Black Knight rockets, a Skylark...
12 April 2021
60 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space
Sixty years ago today cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, a flight that marked a new chapter in the history of space exploration. A trained steel worker turned military pilot, Gagarin was selected from thousands of candidates to...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... km. Lunokhod 2, a second rover from the former Soviet Union, followed in January 1973. Significantly, in terms of the history of space exploration, the Lunokhods remained the only teleoperated rovers to be sent to another planetary body until NASA...
