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STS-1 Columbia’s 1981 Mission to Space
April 12, 1981 In a dramatic lift-off of flame and thunder, the launch of the Columbia space shuttle initiated a new era of space exploration. We were slack-jawed as we flipped through these images...
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Exploring Pluto with H.P. Lovecraft’s Lens
A decade ago, NASA sent a spacecraft called New Horizons on a 3-billion-mile-long journey to the far edges of space as we know it–all the way to the dwarf planet, Pluto. This is the first-ever space...
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Moon Walking in 1969 … and Beyond
Forty-six years ago today, Neil Armstrong made history when he set foot on the moon. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” he famously said, bouncing along the lunar surface....
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The First Giant Telescope
Telescopes can be pretty high-tech these days, but the basic way they are designed is not much different from Sir Isaac Newton’s designs 220 years ago! Our Sun shows us the history behind the first...
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Hypernovas and Gamma-Ray Bursts
Have you ever wondered how the ray guns from your favorite science fiction books and movies work? Here’s a description of how gamma rays occur in space from Christopher Cooper’s Our Sun. Recently,...
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The Space Shuttle: Missions to Space
If there’s one thing we can’t get enough of, it’s mesmerizing pictures taken on space missions. The following are some amazing photos, stats, and info excerpted from The Space Shuttle: Celebrating...
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Was NASA Careless?
January 28, 1986, the STS-51L Challenger shuttle was launched from Kennedy Space station. About 73 seconds after launch, the fuel tanks exploded, killing six astronauts and one civilian. Was NASA being...
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Space Shuttle Discovery
The Space Shuttle came into being in the 1970s as the answer to two questions: “What should the United States do in space after sending men to the Moon?” and “How can the United States continue putting...
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The Origins of Mission Control
Mission Control is the main set up on the ground that is used to track the ships and communicate with the astronauts in them. Although this might now seem like an obvious thing to have, mission control...
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What are Micrometeorites?
Every day approximately 100 metric tons of cosmic dust collides with Earth, mainly in the form of micrometeorites. Most of these mineral particles (iron, nickel, etc.) are smaller than grains of sand,...
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