Date: 1969 Half a century ago, MIT played a critical role in the development of the flight software for NASA’s Apollo program, which landed humans on the Moon for the first time in 1969. Job: Lead Developer on Apollo Mission Standing: Margaret Hamilton Nearby books: The program codes they wrote for the vehicle that landed…
When hearing this question, the first answer that comes to everyone’s mind is the dog named Laika..! But that’s not it At a time when the question of whether life is possible in space was raised among scientists, man sent some organisms into space. In the 1940s and ’50s, the United States and the Soviet…
Crew Dragon 5 and Soyuz MS-22 are the only safe landings for humans. Everything else is filled with waste and burned up on its journey through the Earth’s atmosphere. The leak is in Soyuz MS-22. The plan is to launch Soyuz MS-23 unmanned in autonomous mode and dock with the ISS if Soyuz MS-22 is…
Russia and NASA also reported leaking from Russia’s Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station. The leak started on December 14. 3 Russian astronauts are now stuck on the ISS. Russia is now trying to launch another Soyuz crew capsule to bring them back to Earth.
Wernher von Braun A German, he was the forerunner of rocket/(v2) research in Nazi Germany. Later, he migrated to the United States and became the Head of Rocket and Space Technology there. Rather than an aerospace engineer, he is called a space architect because the Saturn V rocket that brought man to the moon is…
Published by Lockheed Martin, maker of the Orion Capsule. Orion spacecraft captures live view of Earth and moon (video)
Percy returned to Mars in July 2020. After nearly a year of exploration, yesterday (21 Dec 2022) Percy began one of his main missions, sample deposition. Many holes were dug on the surface of Mars and soil, rock dust, etc. were collected from them in small titanium tubes, sealed and deposited in various places on…
The whole world is waiting for NASA’s Orion spacecraft to return to Earth. Artemis and Orion spacecraft are a project that took many years and spent billions. The Orion probe, which went all the way to the moon and took pictures, brought a lot of valuable data back to Earth. It is expected to land…
NASA has tested lofted technology that it hopes will help land humans on Mars. The full name of the mission is Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID). The system consists of a heat shield, a probe, a propulsion system and a parachute, all of which are connected by circular tubes of air connected…
