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Mars, one way ticket please

A manned trip to Mars is the distant future? There are concepts that demonstrate the feasibility of such an undertaking. Provided there is a way! Of course you think anyone would be crazy to spend the rest of his life on Mars. Yet the number of people with serious interest is striking. How to survive [...]

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The Beauty of Space

If you’ve looked at any pictures of Outer Space lately, chances are good you’ve seen at least one image drawn from the Cosmos by the Hubble space telescope, the most powerful space telescope currently in orbit. The telescope is named after Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer who was the first to demonstrate that galaxies existed [...]

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Exploration of Space

The exploration of space uses advanced technology and the science of astronomy to research and do experiments outside of the earth’s atmosphere. Both robots and humans explore space in various forms of spacecraft. Astronomy, the observation of objects in space is pre-historic, modern astronomical and scientific understanding of space didn’t occur until the 20th century. [...]

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