Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon (1960, 1961)
Updated: 2010-12-31 17:04:39
: Beyond Apollo plans for the exploration of space from the age of Apollo and beyond Friday , December 31, 2010 Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon 1960, 1961 The race to the moon began on August 17, 1958, and the Soviet Union won . This isn't the opening line of an alternate history story rather , it is an acknowledgment that more than one moon race took place . The first , with the goal of launching an automated spacecraft to the moon , began with the liftoff of the Able 1 lunar orbiter , a 38-kilogram U.S . Air Force probe subsequently redesignated Pioneer 0. Just seventy-seven seconds after launch from Cape Canaveral , Florida , Able 1's first-stage Thor rocket exploded , ending the world's first attempted lunar . mission A month later , on September 23, 1958, the Soviet
The Planetary Society Blog: Time to open the thirty-first (and next-to-last) door in the advent calendar. Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where in the solar system are these dark-rimmed craters? Door 31The image has a resolution of 6.3 meters per pixel and covers an area about 3.2 kilometers square. Credit: NASA / JPL / UMD This view of the pitted nucleus of comet Tempel 1 is composed of many frames ....
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The Planetary Society Blog: This week is the end for Kodachrome film. It's a casualty of the digital revolution. Kodak announced in June of 2009 that it would stop manufacturing Kodachrome film, the color film that once captured snapshots and professional color prints alike. Even if you kept some, after Friday, December 31, 2010, you won't be able to get it developed anymore, because the last photo shop that had a supply of the chemicals necessary for its development ....
Journey to the Stars: Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Image: The Great Orion Nebula (taken using MicroObservatory Online Telescope last August, 2010) Filed under: Astrophotography, Deep Sky Objects, MicroObservatory, Personal Tagged: 2011, astronomy new year, microobservatory online telescopes, new year greetings, orion nebula Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Image: The Great Orion Nebula (taken using MicroObservatory Online Telescope last August, 2010) Filed under: Astrophotography, Deep Sky Objects, MicroObservatory, Personal Tagged: 2011, astronomy new year, microobservatory online telescopes, new year greetings, orion nebula
Home About us What's up tonight How to choose a telescope Front page Space news Sky tonight Stargazing Mars Moon guide Telescope tips Reviews RSS Shop Storm on Saturn visible to amateurs Mission planned to probe Uranus Posted on December 31st , 2010 British space scientists are leading plans to send a probe to explore giant ice planet Uranus . They have put forward a detailed proposal to the European Space Agency to launch a joint mission with NASA to the distant world , 1.8 billion miles from the . sun Uranus imaged by the Hubble space telescope in 1998 NASA ESA It would give scientists their first close-up views of Uranus since NASA’s Voyager 2 flew past and captured fleeting pictures 25 years . ago The 400million mission is designed to go in orbit to study the rings around Uranus and
Cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev recently arrived at the International Space Station, along with astronauts Cady Colemand from the US and Paolo Nespoli from the European Space Agency. Kondratyev has a blog, which he has been updating regularly and he has included several pictures. Most interestingly, he has quite a few images taken inside the Soyuz after [...]
A few hours before last week’s lunar eclipse started here in the States, the phenomenal astrophotographer (and frequent BA Blog photo contributor) Thierry Legault was in Normandy, France, and got a magnificent picture of a different sort of transit involving the Moon: Wow. You definitely need to click to enlunanate and get the giant version. [...]
From our vantage point on Earth, it takes just a half second for the International Space Station to fly across the face of the Moon, so catching a transit is tricky. But award-winning French astrophotographer Theirry Legault captured an amazingly sharp and detailed transit image that makes the ISS look like it is sitting on [...]
John Lee and his Leeward Space Foundation is a sponsor of the Pearson Prize - a prize awarded by the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) each year for the best paper on the yearly ISEC theme submitted by an undergraduate student. We at ISEC are very grateful for John’s generosity and continuing [...]
: : skip to main skip to sidebar SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY HISTORY SPACE AND OTHER SPECULATIONS Rocketpunk Manifesto Days of Future Past Thursday , December 23, 2010 Transport Nexus III : I Brought My Heart to San Francisco Truth to be told , in all but the narrowest technical sense driving the car she brought me it was my wife Paula's inspiration and effort that got us here . In any case the move and settling-in process account for the lack of posts here in the last couple of weeks , but now RM is up and running . again In itself all this has nothing at all to do with space travel , but it does inspire some further thoughts about space stations . Recent discussion threads have included noteworthy heresies on this . point In the traditional understanding that we all grew up on , an orbital
On November 21st, the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) held another of their LASER (Lego bricks Activity and Space Elevator Race) competitions. Mr. Hideyuki Natsume, a Director at JSEA, informs me that 36 teams with more than 100 people participated and that the competition theme was “payload-juice can”.
The LASER website is here and they have [...]
SpaceX’s second successful Falcon 9 launch has just inserted the Dragon capsule into Earth orbit! The Dragon vehicle will perform a series of check-outs over the next few orbits before re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. If all goes well, then this is a major success for SpaceX and NASA’s COTS program – which seeks to contract [...]
So, the 2010 EuroSpaceward conference is over - it sure went by quickly. It was a very enjoyable conference and Markus Klettner, the Executive Director of EuroSpaceward deserves a lot of credit for the work he did in organizing this event. Dr. Vessilin Shanov remarked to me at the end of the first day that [...]
The Coalition for Space Exploration, of which the National Space Society is a member, has produced another in its series of short public service announcement videos intended to provide some answers to the question “Why spend money on space when we have so many problems here on Earth?”
The new video is called “Think Outside the [...]