02 December 2020
China's Chang'e 5 probe successfully lands on the Moon
...carry out an unmanned rendezvous and docking in a lunar orbit around 380,000 kilometres away, a first in the history of space exploration. The orbiter containing the lunar material is programmed to land in northern China's Inner Mongolia region later...
June 2018
Striding through space
... and Technology Facilities Council, ESA and UK agencies on evaluating space facilities projects, assessing economic benefits, and documenting the history of space exploration. Formerly chief economist of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, he has...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... months the project came together. We built an exhibit that had a storyline, telling visitors about the history of space exploration, from the origins of rocketry in China hundreds of years ago, to the modern dreamers of spaceflight like Tsiolkovsky...
13 November 2019
Curiosity uncovers oxygen mystery on Mars
... who for the first time in the history of space exploration, have measured the seasonal changes in the ...it was just mind boggling," said Sushil Atreya, professor of climate and space sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Atreya is a co-...
05 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... 58th anniversary of the launch of the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1—a momentous day in the history of space exploration! Britain’s Daily Mail reported that a Russian fan of Manchester United, Alexei Yakovlev, enlisted astronaut Steve...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... to live together on this planet as one single humanity. What are the most significant events in the recent history of space exploration? We have to understand that we have only one planet, one Earth, and we are only one humanity in this...
