01 December 2020
China's Chang'e 5 probe successfully lands on the Moon
...carry out an unmanned rendezvous and docking in a lunar orbit around 380,000 kilometres away, a first in the history of space exploration. The orbiter containing the lunar material is programmed to land in northern China's Inner Mongolia region later...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
... their liberal capitalist democracy. We must not underestimate contributions made to the arts and to our cultural history by space exploration and space travel While the USA and the Soviet Union fought for state-based supremacy both...
June 2018
Striding through space
... UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, ESA and UK agencies on evaluating space facilities projects, assessing economic benefits, and documenting the history of space exploration. Formerly chief economist of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... But let’s take a look at the history and background of space art. Most space artists would dearly love to visit other worlds... great effect: ‘ferry rockets’, forerunners of the Space Shuttle, a space station powered by solar energy, Moon bases and ...
04 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... the 58th anniversary of the launch of the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1—a momentous day in the history of space exploration! Britain’s Daily Mail reported that a Russian fan of Manchester United, Alexei Yakovlev, enlisted astronaut...
13 November 2019
Curiosity uncovers oxygen mystery on Mars
..., who for the first time in the history of space exploration, have measured the seasonal changes in ... it was just mind boggling," said Sushil Atreya, professor of climate and space sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Atreya is a co-...
