Sometimes I forget how many national space agencies there are. Of course, I never forget NASA and China and Russia. Or the European Space Agency. Even India is visibly active enough for me to remember them. But others? Not so much.
Here’s a (no long being updated) page with links to national space agencies. I’ll be reviewing them occasionally, looking for interesting things to post here. You can too!
With the shuttle era coming to an end, museums are jockeying for position to get one of the vehicles for display. But it’s difficult. First of all, NASA is keeping the original prototype, the Enterprise. That leaves Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavor. (The Challenger and Columbia were, as we all sadly recall, lost.) So, there are [...]
The European Space Agency (ESA) wants the International Space Station to keep flying at least through 2020…five years past its sceduled retirement. Jean-Jacques Dordain, Dirctor General of ESA, says that science at the ISS is being hurt by uncertainty over its future. He says that scientists seem reluctant to propose new projects for a facility [...]
In 1969, there were TWO manned lunar landings. The second one is not well-remembered by most people. In part, that’s because Apollo 12 was anticlimactic compared to Apollo 11. But there was another reason. No TV. COLOR Television Planned The plan was for much better TV than Apollo 11 had. They brought a color TV [...]