09 April 2021
Around 5,200 tons of extraterrestrial dust falls to Earth each year
... the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), the Universite Paris-Saclay and the National Museum of Natural History with the support of the French polar institute, have the answer. And its a lot. Heading up six...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... will finally illuminate what that failure cost the United States - and the world as well. If we look at history and economics, they demonstrate that the overall decline of our global society is, in no small part, due to our...
01 April 2016
Joke Carved into Olympus Mons by Unknown Race Discovered
Space has never been a subject left out of April Fool's gags, although some of the jokes resulted in some quite real consequences. Here are just some of the many April Fool's jokes that brought space a little closer to Earth. On March 31, 1940, ...
26 February 2018
Abandoned in Place – Preserving America’s Space History
... of his visit to Complex 34 (the site of the Apollo 1 fire) during a fierce lightning storm. “The storm, the history, the accomplishments, the tragic loss overwhelmed my senses”, he says. “On that day, I let my emotions overtake my purpose. I may...
19 June 2019
The Space-Age Presidency of John F Kennedy: a Rare Photographic History
...in the first Moon walk”. Part biography and part personal history, it tells of how station director Tom Reid and his ...involved in “transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history”. It begins with the author’s memories of the Apollo 11 ...
03 January 2021
A History of the Universe in 21 Stars (and 3 imposters)
... alert, they include a globular cluster, the Andromeda Nebula and a quasar. Spattered throughout with potted astronomical histories and the results from modern-day spacecraft missions, this is an engaging and informative read. In an earlier age...
