59 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin, age 27, becomes the first man to orbit the Earth aboard the Soviet spacecraft, Vostok 1. He remains in space for an hour and forty-eight minutes before re-entering the atmosphere. This ultimately was Gagarin’s only space flight. He died on March 27, 1968 when the MiG-15 he was piloting crashed near […]
ESA’s vessel Solar Orbiter (SolO) lifted off the earth yesterday, and the idea is to examine our big star a little closer in the coming years. SolO is developed by the European Space Agency ESA in collaboration with its US counterpart NASA and the idea is that the vessel will observe different properties of the […]
