March 2019
Laying the foundations for cosmic habitation
... unpredictably and this instability sometimes leads to chaos and war. Asgardia is doing its best to avoid those gloomy scenarios, not least ...because star wars (outside the movies) are to be avoided at all...
June 2019
Asgardia’s parliament – a year of progress
... tenet that space doesn’t belong to any one terrestrial nation. Turf wars on Earth have done incalculable damage and served to subjugate entire continents. In a space war there will be no winners. Everybody dies. Asgardia understands that. Military...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... Panther jets off the USS Essex carrier for the US Navy during the Korean War in 1951-1952, to piloting the X15 at Mach 5.74 to a height ... Within 20 years, the USSR had collapsed and the Cold War with the west was over, with the Soviet system unable ...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... around North Vietnamese harbours. These minefields were part of an effort to stem the flow of war materials and bring the US Vietnam War to a close. Suddenly, explosions! According to US Navy records, aerial surveyors reported that more than...
14 June 2016
Astronomers discover a giant planet orbiting two suns
... suns and is named so after Luke Skywalker's homeland in "Star Wars.” The planets official status is Kepler-1647b, a Jupiter size planet ...its identity. With the advent of films such as Star Wars, planets with more than one sun have long captivated ...
12 December 2016
John Glenn; one of NASA's original 'Mercury 7' astronauts dies aged 95
... in Columbus. An accomplished fighter pilot who received five Distinguished Flying Crosses for serving in both World War II and the Korean War, Glenn was one of the “Mercury Seven,” a group of military test pilots selected by NASA in 1959...
