2020-11-02 11:09
The International Space Station is celebrating its 20th Birthday 🥳
But people had been dreaming about space stations long before.
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2018-04-25 07:02
Apollo 6 soaring through the sky - Image credit: NASA
Apollo 6 was launched on 4 April 1968.
It was the final unmanned Apollo mission, so a lot of things had to go right to be clear to… Read More
2018-04-25 06:15
SpaceX first successful droneship landing - Image credit: SpaceX
On 8 April 2016, SpaceX successfully landed a Falcon 9 first-stage on it's autonomous droneship Of Course I Still… Read More
2018-04-24 09:25
On 24 April 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery.
And in the 28 years since that launch, the Hubble Space Telescope has helped us… Read More
2018-04-04 07:49
On 18 March 1965 Alexey Leonov became the first human to perform a extravehicular activity (or EVA) during the Voskhod 2 mission.
That first spacewalk lasted 12 minutes… Read More
2018-04-04 07:32
On 1 April 1960, the first weather satellite, TIROS-1 was launched into space.
It was the first low-Earth orbital weather satellite
TIROS-1
TIROS-1 was launched from Cape Canavera… Read More
2018-04-03 09:22
On 5 March 1979, Voyager 1 made its closest approach of Jupiter. It passed the planet at a distance of 349,000 kilometers (217,000 miles).
Voyager 1 began photographing Jupiter lo… Read More
2018-04-03 08:25
On 1 March 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander plunged down into Venus' atmosphere.
With parachutes and aitbraking, it reaches the planet's surface and continues to send data for 127 minutes… Read More
2018-04-03 07:54
On 16 March 1926, Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket.
A liquid rocket used liquid propellants. This allows the volume of the tanks low. The pressure of the tank… Read More
2018-03-29 07:25
Mariner 10 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1973 and was the first to complete planetary flybys of Venus and Mercury.
Mariner 10 Launch
Built by Boing in Seattle, Mari… Read More
2018-02-06 22:21
Falcon Heavy liftoff - Grab this as a poster
On 6 February 2018, SpaceX completed the first successful launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket.
With a total thrust of over 5 million pound… Read More
2018-01-27 09:33
On 5 January 1972, United States president Richard Nixon announced that NASA was developing a reusable launch vehicle, the Space Shuttle.
US President Richard Nixon and James C. Fletcher, N… Read More
2018-01-27 09:32
On 28 January 1973, Space Shuttle Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.
It was the tenth flight for the Challenger (OV-99) and and has as to carry out severa… Read More
2018-01-22 20:53
Of all Mars spacecraft, only a third has succeeded in completing their mission.
Turns out that sending things to Mars is pretty hard, go figure.
As part of the Mars Exploration program… Read More
2018-01-11 06:21
Luna 1 launched on 2 January 1959 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kzachstan on a SS-6 Sapwood rocket.
As part of the Soviet Luna program, its goal was to crash land on the Moon.
Th… Read More
2018-01-03 08:43
Successful first stage landing - grab the poster
On 21 December 2015, Falcon 9 made its 20th flight.
Most of these previous flights had a clear goal for SpaceX's customer, launch… Read More
2017-12-21 08:45
In the summer of 1968, the stakes were as high as they get.
In 1961, US President John F. Kennedy had promised in a speech that they would put a man on the Moon before the end of the d… Read More
2017-12-20 09:50
Mission crew members unveiling a print-out of the Mariner 2 flyby of Venus
On 14 December 1962, the Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to perform a successful planetary fly… Read More
2017-12-20 09:43
Venera 7 lander
On December 1970, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 became the first human object to land on another planet.
After the Mariner 2 was the first to fly by Venus, the Sov… Read More
2017-12-09 09:32
On 8 December 2019, SpaceX launched and recovered its Dragon spacecraft.
With that feat, it became the first private company to recover a spacecraft.
Launch details
The SpaceX Dragon w… Read More
2017-12-08 07:34
On 7 December 1995, Galileo arrived at Jupiter and completed the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter.
It was launched 6 years earlier and had as mission to study the Jovian system, Jupite… Read More
2017-12-03 12:40
Image credit: NASA
On 4 December 1978, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter entered Venus Orbit.
In 1975, two Venus landers Venera 9 and 10 had already transmitted images from the surface of Venus… Read More
2017-12-03 11:40
Image copyright James McCloskey
On 3 December 2013, SpaceX successfully launched and the SES-8 satellite and brought it into orbit.
SES-8 is a communications satel… Read More
2017-12-02 08:16
Mars 3 was part of the Soviet Mars program.
That whole program consisted of 2 mission: the Mars 2 and Mars 3. Both had identical rockets, orbiters, landers and rovers. Only difference… Read More
2017-11-30 09:19
Try to get picture the atmosphere in the mission control room of the Soviet space program in November 1971.
Soviet mission control center
6 months earlier you've blasted a&nbs&hell…Read More
2017-11-27 21:21
On 25 November 2015, United States President Barack Obama signed the Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (SPACE) Act into law.
The law is a first… Read More
2017-11-20 12:40
Image credit: NASA
On 20 November 1998, the first module of the ISS (or international space station) was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan on a Proton rocke… Read More
2017-11-18 09:38
After a failed launch of a first rover, Lunokhod 1 was launched on the Luna 17 spacecraft on 10 November 1970 from Baikonur, Kazachstan.
After a couple of days in orbit, Lun… Read More
2017-11-18 09:05
On 15 November 1988, the Soviets launched the Buran, Orbiter K1. The first flight of its Space Shuttle program.
It was the first time the Soviets launched a reusable orbiter.
It launch… Read More
2017-11-18 08:07
Image credit: NASA
On 14 November 1971, the NASA Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit a planet other than Earth!
This achievement beat the Soviets by a couple of months, when the M… Read More
2017-11-11 23:00
The Rosetta, an ESA probe, was launched on 2 March 2004 and arrived at the comet 10 years later on 6 August 2014.
It's mission was to perform a detailed study of Comet 67P/Churyumo… Read More
2017-11-03 08:39
On the morning of 3 November 1957, Sputnik 2 launches from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
On board: Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, the first animal in orbit.
Th… Read More
2017-10-31 11:15
On 28 October 1971, the United Kingdom launched the Prospero satellite into low Earth orbit.It was launched from Woomera, Australia on a Black Arrow Rocket.
Flight spare of the Prospero sa… Read More
2017-10-31 10:37
Image credit: NASA
John Glenn was the first American to encircle the Earth. Something he did three times in 1962.
On 29 October 1998, John Glenn made his way back to Earth from space, as a… Read More
2017-10-27 06:00
Image credit: NASA
27 October 1961 marked the first flight of the new Saturn I rocket. The launch took place from Cape Canaveral, Florida and it marked the very first mission flown wit… Read More
2017-10-24 16:01
On October 24, 1946, over a year after the end of World War 2 a German V2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
The V2 rocket was developed by the Nazis but a… Read More
2017-10-18 13:40
On 15 October 1997 the Cassini–Huygens mission launched to Saturn. It launched with a Titan IV rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
The mission was a collaboration… Read More
2017-10-18 10:29
On 14 October 1947, Captain Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
He flew the Bell X-1 (which he named Glamorous Glennis) at Mach 1.06 (that's 700 miles per… Read More
2017-10-12 09:47
Buy the Apollo 7 launch poster
On 11 October 1968, NASA launched Apollo 7 mission.
This manned mission carried a crew of three in an Earth-orbital test flight.
Its objective was to tes… Read More
2017-10-12 09:04
After the Luna missions had reached the Moon, the next obvious target was to go for the planets. Both Venus and Mars were identified as suitable candidates to explore.
On 10 October 1960, t… Read More
2017-10-06 09:27
Artist impression of 51 Pegasi b. Image credit:ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger
51 Pegasi b was discovered by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva… Read More
2017-10-05 08:40
Buy the NASA worm logo poster
1 October 1958 marks the official start of the National Aeronautics Space Administration, better known as NASA.
After the Soviets launched… Read More
2017-10-04 07:59
On 4 October 1957 the Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the first ever artificial satellite.
This was also the first human object in space, a 58 cm metal sphere with 4 radio antenas. It w… Read More
2017-09-29 10:03
29 September 1945 - Wernher von Braun arrives at Ft. Bliss, Texas, with six other German rocket specialists.
As part of Operation Paperclip, the US government got 1,600 German scienti… Read More
2017-09-28 07:00
Falcon 1 lifts off on it's 4th flight. Image credit: SpaceX
After 3 unsuccessful launches of the Falcon 1 rocket, stakes were high for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
The future of hist company… Read More
2017-09-26 09:19
The date is 24 September 1970.
The USSR has lost the space race. The US landed its first man on the Moon a year before.
But they didn't give up and see a glimmer of success… Read More
2017-09-22 09:19
21 September 2003
On 21 september 2003, the NASA Galileo spacecraft ended its 8 year mission to Jupiter.
With fuel running low and the intense radiation taking its toll, the spa… Read More
2017-09-19 08:42
19 September 1988
With the launch of the Ofeq-1, Israel became the ninth country to launch a rocket into space.
Ofeq means Horizon in Hebrew.
It was an experimental reconnaisa… Read More
2017-09-15 10:04
15 September 1968 - Zond 5 probe completes first unmanned Moon orbitOn 15 September 1968 the Zond 5, a Russian probe was the first to complete a Moon orbit, passing the surface at… Read More
2017-09-13 13:14
13 September 1959
The USSR Luna 2 probe impacts into another world.
This Soviet probe was the first man-made object to ever land on the Moon.
The 390 kilogram heavy probe reaches the… Read More
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