With its growing economic and technological strength, China has become a big and important space player, encouraging more countries to take part in its space programs. Scientists from China and other countries are working together to probe the universe. One of the detectors on China's Dark Matter...
Though the exact value of China's spending on its space programs remains shrouded in secrecy, many analysts peg its civilian space budget at around $3 billion annually in recent years, a fraction of the $19.3 billion the United States allocated to NASA in 2016. But on that relatively small ...
How ironic that the Monitor printed both the editorial "Don't Derail Maglev Development" and the news clip "House Votes Funds for Space Station," July 31. The status of these two projects illustrates the massive misdirection of the United States scientific and technological effort.U.S. ...
The former Soviet Union and the US had been competing with each other intensely to develop space programs. Ultimately, both countries excelled, but in different fields. The Soviet Union performed better in building orbiting spacecraft and the US in building spaceships for lunar landings. The forme...
and Soviet Union, space exploration is now a two-way race between the U.S. and China. But initiatives like China’s Shenzhou program and the U.S.’ SpaceX, among other private industry programs, are challenging the duopoly that bureaucrats in Washington and Moscow once had on all space ...
Space Camp Programs Space Camp has been helping inspire the next generation of explorers for more than 42 years. This internationally known program with more than one million alumni is based on NASA astronaut training and focuses on teamwork and leadership skills. Launched in 1982, Space Camp has...
and Russian space programs, China did something neither nation nor any other had done this December: land a spaceship on the dark side of the moon.Strictly speaking, of course, the moon has no dark side. But because of the way it orbits Earth, our natural satellite shows us only one ...
“Suits are the charismatic mammals of space hardware,” said Cathleen Lewis, the curator of international space programs and spacesuits at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. “They evoke the ...
Qian Xuesen(1911-2009), also known as the “Father of China's Space Program", is a man who all the Chinese should remember. Seldom has a scientist made an important contribution to the military programs of both the United States and China. But Qian managed to do so.Born in Shanghai, ...
Since its inception, most space exploration efforts (in the US) have been led by NASA, including the Skylab space station, a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft named Space Shuttle, and the most popular human spaceflight program, the Apollo Moon landing missions. ...