[ad_1] Our lunar heritage | Sunday centerpiece | Gazette Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Neil Armstrong – the man behind the legend BBC News The moon at 50: Neil Armstrong in his own words 60 Minutes The lessons of a trip to the moon The Wall Street Journal 50 years after Apollo II: it's time to … Read more
[ad_1] An expert on the space race claims that John F. Kennedy originally wanted to associate with the Soviet Union to send a man to the moon, without letting him go. America is the first country to achieve this historic feat. Historian John Logsdon, former member of the NASA Advisory Board and founder of the … Read more
[ad_1] GSLV Mk.3 launcher waiting for takeoff with Chandrayaan Moon Mission 2. Credit: ISRO Indian engineers on Sunday canceled the launch of Chandrayaan 2's moon landing mission after observing a "technical hitch" during the last hour of the countdown, the Indian space agency said. The robotic probe was taking off from the Satish Dhawan Space … Read more
[ad_1] There are 7,700,000,000 people on Earth. Only 562 have flown in space and five of them live in this state. So, yes, it's a very, very select group. Three men and two women, aged 44 to 85, who accumulated more than 2,440 hours in zero gravity, with these flying shuttles running 16 surveys and … Read more
[ad_1] The lunar mission, called Chandrayaan-2, which means "lunar vehicle" in Sanskrit, would have been a first for the country trying to become a space superpower. Only three countries, the United States, the former Soviet Union and China, have made a soft landing on the surface of the moon. Only 56 minutes before the planned … Read more
[ad_1] Indian Mission Chandrayaan-2 on the Moon SRIHARIKOTA, INDIA: India drastically canceled Monday the launch of a rocket to land a probe on the moon less than an hour before takeoff, due to a "technical" problem. India would like the Chandrayaan-2 mission – or Moon Chariot 2 – to be only the fourth country after … Read more
[ad_1] NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said in an interview today that his decision to reassign Bill Gerstenmaier and Bill Hill was not abrupt, but reflected the growing concern that cost and schedule estimates for systems needed for the Artemis program were unrealistic. Stressing repeatedly the need to respect the White House's goal of sending astronauts … Read more
[ad_1] Artist, printing the particularly thin disc of material surrounding a supermassive black hole in the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away. Credit: ESA / Hubble, Mr Kornmesser Astronomers using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a thin and unexpected disc of material surrounding a supermassive … Read more
[ad_1] India on Monday canceled the launch of a spacecraft destined to land on the other side of the moon less than an hour before take-off. The Chandrayaan-2 mission was canceled when a "technical problem" was observed in the 14-story 640-tonne rocket launcher, spokeswoman for the Indian Space Research Organization, B.R. Guruprasad said. The countdown … Read more
[ad_1] Less than an hour from Chandrayaan 2's takeoff from Sriharikota, in Andhra Pradesh, scientists have put a "technical block" on the launch of the GSLV Mark III rocket. The 20-hour countdown to the lunar mission began Sunday morning. President Ram Nath Kovind went on the scene to attend the launch of Chandrayaan 2, which … Read more