rockets Archive
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How Did New Horizons Get to Pluto so Quickly?
Posted on June 5, 2015 | 11 CommentsOur Solar System is vast. We on Earth cruise around the Sun in an orbit with a radius of about 150 million km (93 million miles), but the most distant […] -
XS-1: Spaceplane of the Future?
Posted on August 20, 2014 | No CommentsThe good news first: a major aerospace contractor is researching how to build a reusable spaceplane that could dramatically cut the cost of accessing low Earth orbit. Now the bad […] -
Apollo 11: the First Lunar Landing
Posted on June 26, 2014 | 27 CommentsIn July 1969, those who could gathered around available television sets and radios for the moment that human life would leave their first trace on the Moon. At 0256 GMT […] -
Was NASA Technology Predicted in Ancient Indian Writings?
Posted on May 28, 2014 | 114 CommentsIs it possible that ancient cultures 7000 years ago knew how to create flying machines to traverse the sky and beyond using a technology that NASA engineers are still trying […] -
St Patrick’s Academy Rockets Ahead
Posted on May 1, 2014 | No CommentsEncouraging school children to enter the world of aerospace, engineeringand science This is the motto for the Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge which takes place across the globe. The prize, if […] -
Dreamchaser: Everything You Need to Know About the Mini-Shuttle
Posted on April 17, 2014 | 1 CommentIt is almost three years since NASAs Space Shuttle program flew its last mission in July 2011, after providing a mode of transport into space for various crews over a […] -
A Launchpad into the Space Industry