July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... now where they've flown their version of Skylab", says Roger Handberg, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida, comparing Tiangong 1 to the US's first space station. The diminutive Skylab launched in 1973 and, along with...
26 July 2021
Israel’s Helios to ride on ispace lunar lander to make oxygen on the Moon
..., the company has simulated most of the conditions on the Moon using Moon-like sand developed by the University of Central Florida, based on samples brought back from the Moon. Helios's first outing to to the Moon will now allow...
01 December 2020
The main platform at Arecibo has collapsed
...center sustained significant damage from falling cables. Engineers arrived on-site today. Working with the University of Central Florida, which manages the observatory, NSF expects to have environmental assessment workers on-site as early as tomorrow...
