SpaceXis a private spaceflight company that sendssatellitesand people to space, including NASA crews to theInternational Space Station(ISS). Founder Elon Musk is also creating and testing aStarship systemfor lunar landings and, he hopes, future crewedMarsmissions. The company sent its first two as...
or EVA (extravehicular activity), in 1965. Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space during an outing with a male cosmonaut in 1984. NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan followed suit later that year, joining astronaut David...
At its peak, it stands at a whopping 16,16 miles (about 26 kilometers) tall, aboutthree timesthe size of Everest. Another fascinating thing about Olympus Mons is that it isn’t steep, with an average gradient slope of just 5% – meaning you could walk up it easily. (Although it does...
(iss). and since 1995, they’ve blasted off on every nasa shuttle space flight. that’s more than 60 laptops aboard the iss and more than 50 shuttle flights. unsurprising, since a thinkpad is definitely not your run-of-the-mill pc. a thinkpad needs to pass lots of tests to become ...
The Last Recorded Sound From The Crew Was The Pilot Saying "Uh-Oh" The mission, dubbed Challenger's STS-51L, marked pilot Mike Smith's first spaceflight. Just before NASA lost telemetric contact with the shuttle,the crew's voice recorder captured Smith saying"Uh-oh," which proves that a...
8. How Fast Is the Earth Moving? Earth orbits around the Sun at an average velocity of 30 km/s (or about 67 miles per hour), while spinning about its axis at a velocity of 0.5 km/s (1.19 miles per hour) at the equator. Our solar system travels around the center of our galaxy ...
Without further ado, let’s launch right into these 100 crazy facts about space! Mercury & Venus are the only 2 planets in our solar system that have no moons. In total, there are 176 confirmed moons that orbit the planets in our solar system, with some of them being bigger than Mercur...
South Africa’s defence capabilities have reached a critical low raising serious concerns about the nation’s ability to defend itself, protect its 3,000 km coastline, manage its land borders, and provide regional stability. Posted on March 27, 2025 Linda van Tilburg United States The Pentagon...
According to NASA archivist Mike Gentry, it is among the most widely distributed images in human history. One of the most surprising facts about the Earth is how we easily forget that what an amazing and interesting planet we live on. As Carl Sagan pointed out, “It’s home, it’s us...
NASA/Boeing Wikimedia Commons Public domain As evidenced by astronaut Scott Kelly'syear-long stint on the ISS, space travel wreaks bewildering effects on the body. One such effect is the deformation of an astronaut's eyeballs during extended periods in orbit, which could lead to long-term com...