Last Friday, commercial spaceflight operator SpaceX launched its unmanned spacecraft Dragon Capsule to ISS, boarding atop SpaceX’s 157 feet tall Falcon 9 rocket at 10:10 a.m ET (15:10 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. After overcoming a thrilling glitch which occurred in orbit, finally the Dragon has landed safely with ISS.
The interesting thing about conspiracy theories is that when creating them, you can be as liberal as with fiction. The recent meteor shower in Russia incited a number of headlines and interesting stories. But here’s another amusing one: a Russian politician has deemed the meteor explosion as ‘America testing their new weapons.’
Curiosity Rover has been on the red planet for quite a while, scouring through different places and gathering more information about Mars. A recent image that sent Curiosity back to the Earth shows it gazing out at a strange shiny object at some distance. Naturally, the image has piqued the interest of many.
NASA has spent $1.8 billion to build Mars Rover “Curiosity”. I’m sure, considering the expenditure every people will think that Curiosity has super fast brainpower. But ironically Curiosity has less brainpower than an Apple iPhone 5.
The gift of coding is often not confined to those who have top grades or the ones coming out of Ivy League institutions. This has been manifest in the fact that we have often seen excellent software solutions from people belonging to humble origins. Evidently, to tap into this potential, White House has now announced the National Day of Civic Hacking.
Eight years ago on January 14, 2005, a European probe dropped onto Saturn’s largest moon – Titan. Until now, we didn’t know, how the mission’s unmanned spacecraft Huygens landed on Titan. Thanks to a recent animated video that demonstrates how the spacecraft really landed on Titan.
On January 3, 2013, U.S. space agency NASA, who is selling some redundant assets of its Kennedy Space Center, reported that a meteorite named NWA 7034 (nicknamed “Black Beauty”) was found in Morocco’s Sahara Desert in 2011. After long research, NASA scientists believe that this meteorite may yield Martian secrets. Detals inside.
Although for now, Curiosity is scanning the Red Planet, NASA has plans of sending astronauts to Mars in the coming days. However, one critical problem that the agency is currently facing is the fact that a trip to Mars, which will be fairly long, can significantly damage the astronauts’ brains.