Chinese Space Program – The Past and Future
A history of the Chinese space programme made a few weeks before Jade Rabbit landed on the Moon.
A history of the Chinese space programme made a few weeks before Jade Rabbit landed on the Moon.
ESA’s Gaia mission will produce an unprecedented 3D map of our Galaxy by mapping, with exquisite precision, the position and motion of a billion stars.
Following on from yesterday’s video on the Gaia launch, here we offer some background information on what Gaia hopes to achieve.
ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off on 19 December 2013 on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its exciting mission to study a billion suns.
Modified versions of the spacesuits of the type worn by shuttle astronauts during launch and reentry are currently being tested for use by future crews in the Orion spacecraft.
Astronauts aboard the ISS are experimenting with supercritical water. A type of water that has a strange property in that it can start fire.
Here is part 2 of this amazing documentary. The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and his struggle to get the first human mission to Mars...
The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and his struggle to get the first human mission to Mars off the ground. Here is part 1...
A very informative video on the Moon using data collected over the last fifty or so years from satellites and observations. Where did the moon come from? What is it made of? And what...
A look at the night sky this month with the main event being Jupiter at opposition, and Venus at conjunction. The Quadrantid meteor shower will put on a showing, as well.
NASA is to start vegetable growing experiments on the ISS. If humans are ever to colonise other planets then there has to be a system of local food production.
The Sun is getting hotter and one day life on Earth will become impossible. In this episode of ‘Space’ Sam Neil looks at new planets that will one day have to house human beings.
Sam Neil continues his look at ‘Space’. This time exploring the possibility of Alien Life. The search for life on other worlds has been compared to identifying a single grain of sand on the Moon,...