July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... Panther jets off the USS Essex carrier for the US Navy during the Korean War in 1951-1952, to piloting the X15 at Mach 5.74 to a height ... Within 20 years, the USSR had collapsed and the Cold War with the west was over, with the Soviet system unable ...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... around North Vietnamese harbours. These minefields were part of an effort to stem the flow of war materials and bring the US Vietnam War to a close. Suddenly, explosions! According to US Navy records, aerial surveyors reported that more than...
14 June 2016
Astronomers discover a giant planet orbiting two suns
... suns and is named so after Luke Skywalker's homeland in "Star Wars.” The planets official status is Kepler-1647b, a Jupiter size planet ...its identity. With the advent of films such as Star Wars, planets with more than one sun have long captivated ...
12 December 2016
John Glenn; one of NASA's original 'Mercury 7' astronauts dies aged 95
... in Columbus. An accomplished fighter pilot who received five Distinguished Flying Crosses for serving in both World War II and the Korean War, Glenn was one of the “Mercury Seven,” a group of military test pilots selected by NASA in 1959...
02 November 2017
How to teach and learn about space
... part of what drives us. For example, books like the Star Wars series fuelled our curiosity to see what's really out there and ... about how to design spacecrafts. Even here on earth, Star Wars is inspiring robot design. Because of this, it would be ...
23 March 2018
The Politics of Space Security
... multilateral coordination over political and military posturing, or as Winston Churchill once put it, “jaw-jaw” is better than “war-war”. Mark Williamson, Space Technology Consultant
