With its first-ever landing on the far side of the Moon last year, China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe opened a new chapter of lunar exploration. Next up is the Chang'e-5 mission, which is expected to launch this month. But before that, let's review China's lunar expl...
Scientists believe that the speed of a matter-antimatter powered spacecraft would allow man to go where no man has gone before in space. It would be possible to make trips to Jupiter and even beyond the heliopause, the point at which thesun's radiation ends. But it will still be a long...
Although most people think of the U.S. or Russia when it comes to space and spacefarers, China has also successfully launched manned spacecraft. And several countries have contributed personnel to assist the U.S., Russia and China in their space programs. Westerners refer to Chinese astronauts...
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Life vs. Death value measure:A threat of death appears. Rising action The space debris field begins to destroy spacecraft, including Stone and Kowalski’s ship, and they have to escape to the International Space Station. But the spacecraft ISS has been damaged, and they have to travel to ...
The government has gone to a lot of trouble to make it difficult for anyone to see what's going on inside Area 51. For years, mapmakers left out the facility, and while it fell inside the borders of Nellis Air Force Range, the road leading up to the facility was never shown. Even...
Spacecraft are even more complex than airplanes and have the added drawback that they are "manufactured" in tiny quantities—sometimes only one is ever made. Instead of going to all the expense of making unique tools and manufacturing equipment, it can make much more sense to 3D print one-...
An airplane traveling 600 mph (965 km/h) would take 1 million years to travel a single light-year! If we could travel one light-year using a crewed spacecraft like the Apollo lunar module, the journey would take approximately 27,000 years, according to theBBC Sky at Night Magazine. ...
SpaceX has not IPO yet. But its founder-owner, Elon Musk, expressed the possibility of making SpaceX public when there is regular travel to or landing of the spacecraft on Mars. Project MilestonesSpaceX successfully reduced spaceflight costs by innovating the Merlin engine, a cheaper alternative...
NASA has a spacecraft en route toasteroid Psyche, which is orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, but it won’t get there until 2029. By some estimates, the iron in the 140-mile-wide metal-rich asteroid is worth$10,000 quadrillion– more than the value of the entire global economy...