After their NASA space shuttle is damaged by space debris, two stranded astronauts must find a way to return to Earth. Why should you watch it? I get a little nervy when it comes to heights. Back when I was a teenager, in fact, I distinctly remember the sense of vertigo I felt sitti...
NASA is teaming up with India's space agency on a mission to study Earth's land and ice. This mission involves theNISAR satellite, which will scan all of the planet's surfaces twice every 12 days to measure changes. Thesatellite will launchfrom the Indian Space Research Organisation's space...
The Captain of the submarine wears four ribbons: the Korea Medal, the United Nations Korea Medal, the Naval General Service Medal and the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. The officer who cuts Bond free of his shroud and leads him to M is a Lieutenant-Commander and wears two ribbons, th...
Mission 4lets players establish a resource mining base and machines to help locate and extract minerals and metals necessary for growth and operation of an outpost. Mission 5is for launch site development and concerns constructing and maintaining rocket launch facilities for spacecraft arrivals and dep...
Getting a launch boost from Earth The Earth's rotation gives rockets a healthy eastward fling, and the closer to the equator a launch is, the bigger the fling. That's in part why US launch sites are located toward the southern parts of the country and why European spacecraft sometimes a...
A strangely shaped asteroid the size of a building passed close to Earth in October 2017. Astronomers calculated its trajectory and realized it originated outside the solar system, naming it'Oumuamua, "first messenger" in Hawaiian. Such small alien asteroids are likely to be common, but require...
Space Adventures offers launch tours and spacewalk training activities, many of which take place in Russia. They have taken bookings for planned future sub-orbital flights and a mission that intends to orbit the Moon. Space Adventures also seeks people interested in future International Space Station...
Lunar eclipses happen when the Moon enters the shadow of the Earth. Flat-Earthers do not know what this mysterious object is, but they think it only visible when in between the Earth and the Moon. They speculate it is some unknown object orbiting between our world and its satellite, ...
The family of two cruising sailors who have gone missing and are feared dead have asked the cruising community to “stand down” to let local authorities investigate the disappearance of Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel. Also, police issued a statement naming three young men who had...read more...
The answer is simple: When President John F. Kennedy declared in 1961 that the United States would go to the Moon, he was committing the nation to do something we simply couldn’t do. We didn’t have the tools or equipment—the rockets or the launchpads, the spacesuits ...