Lost Spacefarers: Astronaut Dale Gardner and Cosmonaut Valery Kubasov Die
This week has seen the deaths of two spacefarers: NASA's Dale Gardner, veteran of two Shuttle missions and Russia's Valery Kubasov who flew three... Read more →
ISS as a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee? Why Not?
This article was first published by Space News on February 17. It is reposted with permission of the author and editor. By Walter Peeters At... Read more →
Cosmos 1220 Took the Plunge, But What’s Left?
In the early morning hours of February 16, a long-defunct Russian surveillance satellite finally gave up the ghost, making the final plummet through... Read more →
The Story of the First V-2 Rocket Launch in Wassenaar, the Netherlands
Wassenaar is a small town, in the western area of the Netherlands, close to The Hague. Not many people know the role of this city in the history of... Read more →
Ignorance Is No Joke
More than a quarter of adult Americans do not know that the Earth orbits the Sun. That’s the conclusion of a National Science Foundation survey... Read more →
Cyber Crime – From Cyber Space to Outer Space
The rise of Internet as the main - and often only - communication channel between computer networks in the past 20 years has exponentially increased... Read more →