Collaborate Disseminate
At this point, most of us are painfully aware of the restrictions that COVID-19 social distancing protocols have put on our daily lives. Anyone who can is working from home, major events are canceled, non-essential businesses are closed, and travel is either strongly discouraged or prohibited outright. In particularly hard …read more
Continue reading Getting To Space Is Even Harder During a Pandemic
Europe’s ExoMars mission has suffered a setback and will not launch until 2022. The joint ESA/Roscomos Space Corporation mission to send a rover to the Red Planet to seek out evidence of life has been pushed back from its 2020 launch date due to the ne… Continue reading ExoMars mission launch delayed two years until 2022
The Russians were the first to send a dog into space, the first to send a man, and the first to send a woman. However, NASA sent the first humanoid robot to the International Space Station. The Russians, though, want to send FEDOR and proclaim that while Robonaut flew as …read more
“This name reminds us that it is in the human genes to explore.” Continue reading A Rover Named After DNA Pioneer Rosalind Franklin is Headed for Mars in 2020
Korolev crater contains a permanent ice field that stretches over a mile deep. Continue reading The Martian North Pole Is a ‘Winter Wonderland’ Right Now, New Photo Shows
Today’s failed Soyuz launch thankfully resulted in no casualties, but the fate of the International Space Station (ISS) is now in question.
Just two minutes after liftoff, the crew of the Soyuz MS-10 found themselves in a situation that every astronaut since the beginning of the manned space program has trained for, but very few have ever had to face: a failure during launch. Today the crew of two, Russian Aleksey Ovchinin and American Nick Hague, were forced to make a ballistic re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere; a wild ride that put them through higher G forces than expected and …read more
Continue reading International Space Station is Racing the Clock After Soyuz Failure
Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin, known for bombastic comments, said it was “a matter of honor” to “find the one responsible” for the puncture. Continue reading Russia Space Chief Suggests International Space Station Leak Could Be Sabotage
Orbital commutes made easy. Continue reading Russian Scientists Have Been Trying to Make a ‘Space Motorcycle’ for Decades
“I think the appropriate reaction is ‘mild curiosity’ rather than ‘worry.'” Continue reading This Strange Sensor Russia Sent to the ISS Is Baffling US Military Experts
For the generations who lived through the decades of the Space Race, the skies above were an exciting place. Every month it seemed there was a new announcement of a new mission, a Lunar landing, new pictures from a planetary probe, or fresh feats of derring-do from astronauts or cosmonauts. Space was inspiring!
As we moved through the Shuttle, Mir, and ISS eras, the fascinating work didn’t stop. The Mars rovers, the Cassini probe, the Chang-e Lunar mission, or the Hubble telescope, to name just a very few. But somehow along the way, space lost the shine for the general …read more
Continue reading The Russians And The Americans Only Want The Moon