More space patches, this time the Apollo space patches accompanied with sound clips of communication with the capsules and lander of those historic flights. Read the story on: Memories of Apollo Moon missions inspire new animations
A nice recap of the adventures of Rosetta and Philae and the unexpected adventures of Philae during the landing on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
EdX runs a cool course: Introduction to Aerospace Engineering: Astronautics and Human Spaceflight The course is presented by MIT Professor Jeffrey Hoffman, a former NASA astronaut who made five spaceflights and the first astronaut to log 1000 hours on the Space Shuttle He teaches you the core principles behind space travel and exploration. The course …
How hard can it be to build a rocket and actually send it into space…. This is a question every space exploration fan, will have asked him or herself at least once. Well these engineers are trying to find out the answer to this question and build the bigest rocket they can in just three weeks. They …
In an ongoing effort to bring space exploration to a broader audience, ESA open sourced the construction plans of the Rosetta & Philae comet explorer. It is now possible to build your own comet explorer and sent it of to space…
Some exiting findings where presented by, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who built the project and and manages it. Read the background article on how water helped shape Mount Sharp on the JPL website
Watch this beautiful short sf movie about us humans, wandering into or solar system.
Back in 2000, the planning and testing for the Rosetta mission was in full swing. First tests where done with full size models, in the largest vacuum chamber in Europe. Later Rosetta itself was rigorously tested under vibration, in vacuum, cooled down and heated up, to test if all system would function properly in outer …
Rosetta & Philae photos on Earth and background story #cometlanding Lees verder »