... sent back its first amazing images of distant stars and nebulae. . . But let’s take a look at the history and background of space art. Most space artists would dearly love to visit other worlds; even to take...
...newcomers in the flight control team. Never before in the history of space exploration had a space probe reached a comet...back to the team a few years earlier. Never before in the history of space exploration had a space probe reached a comet and tried...
...experiments provided the necessary information to allow astronauts to control moisture for the first time in human spaceflight history. If at first you don’t succeed… During lengthy flights an experiment where something is grown can find a wide range...
... different types of Earth observation (EO) models have been developed and several disruptive events have shaped EO history, bringing significant changes in paradigms. France’s decision, in 1986, to use a commercial model for the distribution of SPOT...
.... A capture manoeuvre is performed to reduce the apocentre altitude. By investigating Jupiter and its satellites and discovering the history of its evolution we will gain a greater understanding of how gas giants and their satellite systems form and...
... travel to the stars. Today, for the first time in history, we might be only decades away from sending a spacecraft ... spacecraft to the stars? Today, we are at a unique point in history. We can conceive machines that we can send to other stars. And it...