July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... early years included the rotation rate of the planet Mercury and the period of the Crab pulsar In 1974,...Landmark Then, in 1992, ice was detected in the shadowed craters at Mercury’s north and south poles. It persists despite temperatures as high as ...
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-orbital...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... its reusable launch vehicle made headlines for carrying both the oldest and youngest persons to go to space (Mercury 13’s Wally Funk, aged 82, and Oliver Daemen, 18, respectively). The sophisticated publicity machines of these large companies missed...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... trapping of volatiles has now been confirmed even in the most extreme regions of the Solar System, like Mercury. Volatile-rich asteroids have been invoked as playgrounds for human exploration for the resources they can...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... of location - proximity to both the ocean and equator. With time, the world watched as the historic missions of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle launched from Florida, as well as numerous defence and planetary science missions...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... spacesuits and life support systems, this has typically involved some sort of transporter van. In the 1960s, US Mercury astronauts travelled alone from their crew-quarters at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station inside a converted...
