26 February 2018
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
Since the beginning of the Space Age, space history books have gone through a sort... style’, the author tells the story of some of the Russian and American space science missions of the 1970s and 1980s through the eyes of those responsible. The...
01 January 2023
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
...‘special breed’ here; in the 60-plus years of the Space Age only about 600 people have reached orbit. Before the interview ...training as a Shuttle astronaut, the history of the Large Space Telescope (which became the HST) and the preparations for its...
16 January 2024
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
...‘special breed’ here; in the 60-plus years of the Space Age only about 600 people have reached orbit. Before the interview ...training as a Shuttle astronaut, the history of the Large Space Telescope (which became the HST) and the preparations for its...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
...Paco Rabanne was at the helm of the 1960s ‘Space Age Fashion’ movement thanks to his use of unconventional ...activities are focussed on teaching, design and research on space and extreme environments to facilitate human missions in microgravity ...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... largest solar energetic particle (SEP) events of the Space Age. Data from space-based measurements suggest that one or both of the ...the most extraordinary solar geospace events ever experienced in the Space Age. Early on 4 August, the Sun, unable to...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... important of such institutions is the UN (United Nations), particularly its Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). When the Space Age began in 1957 at the height of the Cold War, both the Soviet Union and the US strived...
