Space exploration

Free Aerospace engineering course on EdX

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 …

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How hard can it be to build your own rocket…

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 …

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Rosetta & Philae photos on Earth and background story #cometlanding

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 …

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