01 January 2020
Virginia Air & Space Center
... visiting the Viking lander on Mars. As far as real space hardware is concerned, the museum also displays the Mercury 14 capsule (used to test the launch escape system), a Gemini boilerplate drop-test vehicle and the Orion...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... missions to the Moon." At its closest, Solar Orbiter will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury, approximately 42 million kilometres from the solar surface. Cutting-edge heatshield technology will ensure the spacecraft...
15 March 2021
Edinburgh Women in Space Conference 2021
... heavily throughout the conference, with speakers such as Dr. Hina Khan, PamAnderson, Dr Christina Mackaill, Cassandra Mercury and Dr Sonali Mohapatra. An overarching theme of the conference is to create a thriving space sector with individuals...
11 October 2021
Blue Origin flight with William Shatner postponed until 13 October
...in Mission Control for the International Space Station Program. In addition to serving as executive sponsor of Blue Origin’s New Mercury gender diversity business resource group, she is a pilot and serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the...
16 January 2022
Fighting for Space
... female spaceflight’, it tells the story of Jerrie Cobb (famous for taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts) and the lesser-known Jackie Cochran, a World War II pilot who, in the late 1950s, held...
20 May 2022
Reaching for the Moon
... dog; a Soviet “engineer” with Sputnik; Explorer 1 held high by Pickering, Van Allen and von Braun; the Mercury 7; Earthrise; Aldrin and the flag… Worse still, they are poorly reproduced on that sepia-toned paper...
