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 […]
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 […]
