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With the historic landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon, the summer of 1969 was quite memorable for me as a budding seven-year-old space enthusiast. And […]
The primary objective of NASA’s Kepler mission is to determine how common rocky planets are in the habitable zone with the ability to detect Earth-size planets […]
The main objective of NASA’s Kepler mission and the primary driver of its design was to find Earth-sized planets in Earth-like orbits around Sun-like stars – […]
Extrasolar planets have captured the public imagination in recent years for reasons ranging from the joy of scientific discovery to the desire of finding a new […]
The year 1966 was a busy one for the US space program and its push to reach the Moon by the end of the decade. With […]
As 1966 began, NASA and its contractors were pushing forward with the first test flights of actual Apollo hardware in hopes of launching the first manned […]
As NASA’s Juno spacecraft approaches Jupiter, there has been growing interest among space enthusiasts in the views its camera will return. JunoCam, as it is called, […]
Over the last half a century or so, NASA has managed to land operating payloads on a number of bodies in our solar system. Naturally the […]
In this age with a permanent human presence in orbit currently provided by the International Space Station (ISS), it seems hard to recall a time when […]
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 […]
On May 10, 2016 NASA held a press conference to announce officially the discovery of the latest group of extrasolar planets found by the Kepler mission. […]
According to the FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) which maintains records for aeronautical activities, the “official” threshold of space is at an altitude of 100 kilometers which […]
