Space Missions

When we think of wars in space, we may imagine science fiction scenarios such as Luke Skywalker destroying the Death Star, but the U.S. military is taking the threat of a war in space as …

We’re currently in the middle of another space race, this time between China and the United States, with both countries investing heavily in developing technologies to help them accomplish the major feat of putting humans …

Of all the landfills to blight the planet, perhaps the biggest garbage collection on all is the one actually orbiting the Earth. In fact, the situation has begun to get so far out of control …

Many people joke that if there was ever a nuclear holocaust, only cockroaches would survive the fallout, but it turns out that the pests would likely be joined at the end of the world by …

Space has intrigued mankind forever, and in the 20th century the USA and the USSR became caught up in a race to see who could conquer it first. On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched …

On June 25, 2016, China launched a 53-meter, 600-tonne rocket, which became the latest of the country’s spacecraft to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and voyage into space. The purpose of the Long March-7 rocket is …

In case you’ve haven’t heard, N.A.S.A (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) will be receiving a much larger budget in the upcoming fiscal year. For the year 2015, N.A.S.A.’s budget was around $18.01 billion, while for …