Simply pop in the location you wish to know for ISS sighting opportunities and let the widget work its magic. It will tell you the time of the ISS flyover along with how long it is visible, the maximum height it will reach in the sky and which direction it will appear and disappear ...
How long it takes to get to Mars depends on the planetary position and available technology. Here we explore how long a trip to the Red Planet would take.
As spaceflights become more routine, astronauts don't have the celebrity power that they did during the Space Race frenzy. However, Canadian Colonel Chris Hadfield grabbed the spotlight during ISS Expedition 35 by recording music during his time in orbit. He also created a music video based on ...
This crew spent 84 days in orbit, conducted experiments and photographed comet Kohoutek. Skylab was never meant to be a permanent home in space, but rather a workshop where the United States could test the effects of long-duration space flights (that is, greater than the two weeks required ...
Some spacecraft can be left to safely drift off into space as long as there is no chance of them hitting anything or causing any damage. That’s what happened to Spitzer, which will gently float away from the planet for the next 50 or so years as it orbits the sun and trails the Ea...
The long-term aim of the Starship development is to create a reliable rocket system that is powerful enough to carry astronauts to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program, and eventually perhaps even to Mars. Editors’ Recommendations ...
SpaceX is essentially a delivery service. If anorganizationwants to send goods to the ISS or launch a satellite into orbit, the company uses its fleet of vehicles, including the Dragon, Falcon Heavy, and Falcon 9. As successful as SpaceX has been, it should be noted that it competes with...
On theInternational Space Station, ISS, the undocking typically takes place during the final (14th or 15th) orbit of a particular day, around 3.5 hours before a scheduled touchdown on Earth. After opening the hooks of thedocking mechanism, spring pushers in the docking port give the spacecraft...
题目Space food has come a long way since John Glenn orbited Earth in 1962. He and other members of Project Mercury, the first American human spaceflight program, had to endure unappetizing foods that came in the form of bite-sized cubes, freeze-dried powders, and semi...
Somewhere along the way she had stopped long enough to start a family. “I had a husband once, from Puerto Rico, but he’s gone now. He gave me eight kids! So why was she not with them? “I don’t know where they all are now. Two of them, a boy and a girl, are with me...