Published in The Patriot Ledger August 23, 2014
In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the Soviets who had most of the space firsts, including the first satellite, first man in space, and first rocket to the moon. Starting with the Apollo moon landing in 1969, it has been NASA that has had the most space firsts. But earlier this month, the European Space Agency (ESA) scored a major space first when its Rosetta spacecraft rendezvoused with a comet. (more…)
The evolution of life
Matt Damon in "The Martian"
Pluto's surface as seen by New Horizons
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket
Size comprison of the Earth, the moon, and Pluto (lower left)
Aerial view of Spaceship Two crash in Mohave Desert
Close-up of nucleus of comet 67P taken by ESA spacecraft Rosetta
Wernher Von Braun & engines of Saturn V
Steven Swanson (left) and Russian colleagues
Yutu, Chinese rover, on the moon
Comet ISON and its green tail
Archives
International Space Station, where NASA will continue to support the astronauts during the shutdown
Artist's version of Mars One colony (Bryan Versteeg)
Kepler Space Telescope (artist's version)
Pluto - the Former Ninth Planet
Virgin Galactic space plane over New Mexico's Spaceport America
Saturn - Lord of the Rings
Arizona's Meteor Crater
Radar view of the surface of Venus as seen by Magellan orbiter
Use of Terra, a spin-off of CheMin (instrument on Curiosity), in King Tut's tomb
Streambed found on Mars by Curiosity (compared to dry streambed on Earth)
Self-portrait of the rover Curiosity on Mars.
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