September 2023
Address from the Head of Nation
... many familiar faces - people who have been at the forefront of parliamentarianism of the first space nation in the history of humankind since 2018. You have decided to continue your service to humanity, to devote your time, strength, intellectual...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
... to find out why a country with such a long space history had only recently set up its own agency and what its future... as an entity is really new, Spain really has had a long history of space activity. Some of its people come from the Centre for ...
02 January 2019
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft makes history...again!
... on the border of the Kuiper Belt. "New Horizons performed as planned, conducting the farthest exploration of any world in history — 4 billion miles from the Sun," said Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder...
18 January 2019
Asteroid impacts on the increase since the age of the dinosaurs
... was less than favourable with the dinosaurs. Throughout Earth’s history, our planet and neighbouring Moon have been the subject of.... In fact the Earth was pummelled so much in its early history, we even have a name for it; the Late Heavy Bombardment ...
06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
... a record for the longest single spaceflight in history by a woman, NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned... has logged 367 days in space, more than any ESA astronaut in history. During his time in space for Expeditions 60 and 61, Parmitano conducted ...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... training to ensure the best possible health status of each crew member at the time of launch. So far in the history of human spaceflight the occurrence of dental injuries has been minimal. During the US Apollo and Skylab programmes...
