At 05:01 this morning (Swedish time), Crew-1 docked with the International Space Station ISS a little more than a day after they left Earth the night before Monday. The four astronauts who took part in the journey will now join Expedition 64 on the ISS and the three crew members already on board the space […]
Here you can watch NASA’s Crew-1 taking off towards the International Space Station ISS. It was SpaceX’s first regular astronaut flight to the ISS and NASA’s first regular astronaut flight from American soil since the space shuttles were scrapped in 2011. The three NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and JAXA’s astronaut […]
It has now been 20 years since Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station ISS, which began an era when humans have constantly lived in space. Since November 2, 2000, around 250 people from 19 countries have visited the ISS while conducting over 2,800 experiments with scientists from over one hundred countries involved on […]
49 years ago, using the battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), Astronaut David Scott of the Apollo 15 mission becomes the first person to drive a vehicle on the Moon. The LRV was used during the last three missions to the Moon, Apollo 15, 16, and 17. The three LRVs used during the missions still remain on the surface of the moon.
NASA chief Jim Bridenstine have announced that for the first time since 2011, NASA will send US astronauts to the International Space Station ISS in a US-made craft. SpaceX is responsible for the transport and for that you will use your rocket Falcon 9 and the transport capsule Crew Dragon. If everything goes according to […]
This summer, NASA will be going to Mars again and this time they’ll bring a drone (or small helicopter). If everything goes acording to plan, NASA’s helicopter will be the first machine to fly on its own on our red sister planet. Earlier this month, NASA tested mounting Mars Helicopter on its rover Perseverance and […]
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 […]
