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As the Voyager spacecraft continue their missions onwards into interstellar space, it seems hard to believe that it has already been 30 years since the encounter […]
Except for the occasional headline of some important achievement, the general public today is largely unaware of how space technology affects them despite the pervasiveness of […]
As the old saying goes, “the third time’s the charm”. This is likely an American variation of the British phrase “third time lucky” (which itself is […]
Today it seems that whenever one of NASA’s missions to worlds beyond our own encounters a potentially mission ending problem, teams of talented engineers and scientists […]
While the tragic fire which killed the crew of Apollo 1 on January 27, 1967 effectively put the brakes on the Apollo program (see “The Future […]
In recent years it seems that Mars has dominated NASA’s planetary exploration program while proposals to study our twin-planet-gone-bad, Venus, are being repeatedly rejected. Something similar […]
One of the first things a human instinctively does when seeing something interesting is to take a closer look and touch it. While this may seem […]
For those who follow the world’s space programs, it is well known that things do not always go as planned. A mission can go very wrong […]
After a decades-long hiatus, we have finally restarted our exploration of the lunar surface using automated landers and rovers. While these missions almost make landing on […]
Recent years have witnessed renewed interest in missions to the Moon. In addition to the United States and Russia, who dominated the exploration of the Moon […]
Discovered in 1781 by German-born British astronomer, William Herschel, Uranus was the first planet in our Solar System to be discovered since ancient times. In the […]
The largest of Saturn’s diverse family of moons, Titan is also arguably one of the more interesting worlds in our Solar System with a thick haze-filled […]
