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Sep 29
2020

Soyuz 11: Disaster in Space

Soyuz 11 was the only crewed mission to board the world’s first space station, Salyut 1. The crew, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev, arrived at the space station on 7 June 1971 and departed on 29 June. The mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule depressurized during preparations for reentry, killing the three-man crew. The three crew members of Soyuz 11 are the only humans known to have died in space.

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Sep 29
2020

Eating Food in Space

This is how Astronauts eat food in Space!!

Sep 28
2020

New Venus Balloon Mission Study Aims To Find Life By 2022

Finding Venus life on the cheap. A $20 million balloon flotilla could probe Venus’ mid-level atmosphere now with off-the-shelf technology, say researchers.

Sep 28
2020

Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists

Researchers say they have detected a group of lakes hidden under the red planet’s icy surface.

Sep 28
2020

Venus: A Brief history of exploration

Our twin planet hasn’t been in limelight until recently. What does that mean for our exploration plans?

Sep 28
2020

More Lakes Found Under the Martian Ice

More lakes discovered under Martian ice. Could these liquid water pools be inhabited by life?

But would such cold places be habitable?

Sep 28
2020

NASA wants ideas for keeping Moon missions powered in the dark

NASA is crowdsourcing ideas for energy systems that would keep Moon missions powered, even in the dark.

Sep 27
2020

The far side of the Moon

The far side of the Moon is the hemisphere of the Moon that always faces away from Earth. The far side’s terrain is rugged with a multitude of impact craters and relatively few flat lunar maria compared to the near side. It has one of the largest craters in the Solar System, the South Pole–Aitken basin.

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Sep 27
2020

A Physicist Has Come Up With Math That Makes ‘Paradox-Free’ Time Travel Plausible

No one has yet managed to travel through time – at least to our knowledge – but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists.

As movies such as The Terminator, Donnie Darko, Back to the Future and many others show, moving around in time creates a lot of problems for the fundamental rules of the Universe: if you go back in time and stop your parents from meeting, for instance, how can you possibly exist in order to go back in time in the first place?

It’s a monumental head-scratcher known as the ‘grandfather paradox’, but now a physics student Germain Tobar, from the University of Queensland in Australia, says he has worked out how to “square the numbers” to make time travel viable without the paradoxes.

Sep 26
2020

NASA gearing up for epic asteroid-sampling maneuver next month

Circle Oct. 20 on your calendars.

The OSIRIS-REx probe is scheduled to pull off NASA’s first-ever asteroid-sampling operation on Oct. 20, snagging precious dirt and gravel from a carbon-rich space rock called Bennu.