The debate over whether Microsoft should withdraw from the console business is intricate and multi-dimensional. While it may seem rational for the company to concentrate on its main strengths, its participation in the console business has enabled it to innovate and impact the gaming industry. U...
Jan. 11, 2019. China on Friday broadcast pictures taken by its rover and lander on the moon's far side, in what its space program hailed as another triumph for the groundbreaking mission to the less-understood sector of the lunar surface. (Jin Liwang/Xinhua via AP) ...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday broadcast pictures taken by its rover and lander on the moon’s far side, in what its space program hailed as another triumph for the groundbreaking mission to the less-understood sector of the lunar surface. The pictures on state broadcaster CCTV showed the ...
On Feb. 22, 2024, Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander captures a wide field of view image of Schomberger crater on the Moon approximately 125 miles (200 km) uprange from the intended landing site, at approximately 6 miles (10 km) altitude.(Cred Expand Odysseus moon lander pictures Bu...
(everyone knows that there were always only two on the Moon) or photos including items that were never actually taken (sales signs, camels, and even whole ships—a camel in the lander, marvelous!). I think that we can classify these manipulations as “jokes” and “advertising,” and as...
The Apollo 11 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on July 16, 1969, bearing the first humans to walk on the moon. Placing the Flag on the Moon NASA The deployment of the flag of the United States on the surface of the moon is captured on film during the first Apo...
Half of the films in this post are from the US, but then one of them I did actually see at the cinema. It’s become a bit of a tradition over the last decade to go see something at the cinema during the Christmas holiday, and that usually means something genre and very commercial…...
Pictures from Mars Probe Leave Scientists over the MoonSCIENTISTS were dazzled yesterday by the first pictures from the Phoenix lander after its safe arrival on the surface of Mars.
Venera-9's lander reached Venus on October 22. At an angle of 20° from the horizon, its entry was shallower than previous missions and overloads of about 170g were experienced. When deceleration forces reached a predetermined level, parachute deployment began at an altitude of about 65 kilo...
Moon lander. And the more famous Apollo Capsule. This is one of those events I wish I was old enough to have been able to go too.