May 30, 1975 : European Space Agency Established
The European Space Agency was created as a merger of the European Launcher Development Organization, or ELDO, and the European Space Research Organisation, ESRO. Both ELDO and ESRO were established in the 1960s to unify the space-related activities of European nations. After World War II, a lot of European rocket scientists left to work in […]
Falcon 9 launches 60 more Starlink internet satellites
The launch carried 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit and set a new record for payload fairing reuse, with one half of the nose cone making its fifth flight. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 launcher lifted off at 2:59 p.m. EDT (1859 GMT) Wednesday from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, setting a […]
Orbital Assembly Opens New Production Facility to Accelerate the First Space Hotel Development
Orbital Assembly Corporation, the first large scale space construction company, today announced the opening of its new production facility in Fontana, California that develops the technologies and structures to build the world’s first space hotel with lunar levels of gravity between the Earth and the moon. In addition to serving as new corporate offices, the […]
SpaceX Crew Dragon makes First nighttime landing with US astronauts since Apollo era
A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts returned to Earth early Sunday (May 2) with an ocean splashdown off the Florida coast, successfully completing the company’s first full-fledged crewed mission to the International Space Station. The astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission for NASA splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City at […]
Mars helicopter Ingenuity goes faster and farther than ever on 4th flight
NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity keeps pushing the aerial exploration envelope. The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper lifted off from the floor of Mars’ Jezero Crater today at 10:49 a.m. EDT (1449 GMT), kicking off its fourth flight on the Red Planet. Ingenuity achieved all of its main technology-demonstrating goals on flights one through three — which […]
SpaceX NASA: Earth From Space seen from Crew Dragon Arrival at Space Station
Seeing the Earth from the ISS and from SpaceX Crew Dragon Flight can always be exhilarating. Since the inception of the first civilization settlement at Gobeklipe, mankind has always looked upon the stars to wonder about them. Now anyone can watch Earth from space.
Elon Musk states that SpaceX Can Land Astronauts on the Moon by 2024
Race to the moon is heating up between USA, Russia, China and India with news of new missions every day. China’s first lunar sample return heated up this race this year and Artemis Project by NASA is going full speed ahead as it has a goal of having a manned landing on moon and then […]
SpaceX Launches NASA Mission to Send 4 Astronauts to Space
SpaceX was able to create another milestone in the space technology missions of the private sector with its recent launch of 4 astronauts into space. It’s the third crewed launch for SpaceX owned by Elon Musk in less than 12 months. A slightly sooty Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Crew Dragon capsule took to […]
NASA Ingeunity Martian Helicopter Flies High and Mighty in Martian Atmosphere
It was a harrowing sight as the NASA Ingenuity UAV or Martian helicopter was able to fly high and mighty on Martian surface. It was a first time a helicopter like object flew on another planet and it was a momentous event for space exploration. NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity just made aviation history, and its […]
Russia is Partnering with China to Get an Asteroid Sample and to Study a Comet
Russian space program which has been dormant for decades and which has mainly focused on ISS transportation is waking up after its long sleep to start its space programs again with the upcoming Luna 25 mission in October 2021. Now its also partnering with the Chinese Space program to get an asteroid sample and to […]