August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
...Canaveral, Florida, during preflight training activities for his Mercury- Atlas 6 flight in 1962. He made America’s first manned Earth-orbital spaceflight completing three orbits of Earth. “It all started when I saw the ‘flying saucers’,” he recalled...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... which is presumably a nod to the year of the first manned landing. Each of the three rocket stages are separable, ...been occupied continuously for two decades, since the launch of the first component in 1998. This 864-piece set is a decent facsimile ...
12 December 2016
John Glenn; one of NASA's original 'Mercury 7' astronauts dies aged 95
... shuttle Discovery. Image: NASA Speaking yesterday of the news, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said; “Today, the first American to orbit the Earth, NASA astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn, passed away. We mourn this...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
... entered the circular fire orbit and became China’s first man-made mars satellite,” the news site said. Tianwen...connection. The probe then used its cameras to send back its first captured image of Mars from a distance of 2.2 million kilometres....
01 October 2019
The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions
...lesser known engineers who were instrumental in the success of the first manned moon landing”. In this sense, it fits into the ‘...other”, according to simulations expert Frank Hughes. “It’s the first time humans had to really deal with the speed of ...
09 February 2021
UAE Hope probe successfully enters Mars' orbit
... both the 50th anniversary of the Emirates and 50 years since the first man-made object landed on the Red Planet. As a young nation, ...shared understanding of our second-closest planet. The first scientific results and findings by the EMM science team...
