05 February 2021
Hydrazine might be present on Rhea, new study says
... fuel.” Hydrazine could also be drifting over from Titan, another of Saturn’s moons. Larger than the planet Mercury, this extraordinary world is the only known moon with a substantial atmosphere, that like Earth’s is dominated by nitrogen...
12 March 2021
Scientists find a rocky exoplanet rebuilding its atmosphere
... atmosphere, added Rimmer. “It is also important for understanding where the rocky planets in our own Solar System — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, fit into the bigger picture of comparative planetology, in terms of the availability of hydrogen...
23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
... spacecraft. “We’ll in less than a year have flown as many people in this partnership with NASA as were flown in the Mercury program,” SpaceX senior director Benji Reed said during a press briefing earlier this week. Crew-2 lifted...
02 July 2021
Branson plans space trip ahead of rival Bezos
...,” Funk said via a video posted on Instagram by Bezos. Born in New Mexico in 1939, Funk was one of the Mercury 13 – the first women trained to fly to space from 1960-1961, but excluded because of their gender. She...
19 July 2021
Blue Origin ready for first crewed New Shepard launch 20 July
... person ever to reach space, and Daemen will be the youngest. Funk is renowned for being part of NASA’s Mercury programme, but was excluded because of her gender, as at the time, women were not allowed to be astronauts or military...
08 December 2021
Iron might be key for finding life on other worlds, new study says
...; oxygen, silicon, aluminum and iron. Iron can also be found on all of our terrestrial neighbours in varying amounts. Mercury’s core for instance contains more iron than any other major planet in the Solar System but...
