Tag Archives : Space Exploration

“Hundred Years of Starship” will certainly be one of the most ambitious and audacious space programs of NASA till date. NASA and DARPA have decided to collaborate on a space project of sending manned space ship to Mars and the plans are not just limited to that, they are planning to make it a one way journey! Which means astronauts will be sent [...]

Humans have come a long way from sending unmanned spacecrafts into the orbit, to planning manned Mars missions by the end of this decade. Yet, there is a concept that though proven quite feasible in theory was yet to have been attempted successfully. We are talking about the solar propulsion in space travel, with the help of solar sails. The Japan Aerospace [...]

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is all sent to launch a solar powered spacecraft Ikaros in space on May 18. Ikaros is essentially a spacecraft which will be powered by solar sails and will cruise through solar system and will explore deep space like never before. It is first of its kind interplanetary kite on a deep space mission that [...]

Nasa’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) had made an impact into Cabeus crater near south pole of Moon on 9th October and had kicked up debris as high as one mile. Scientists have analyzed the plume of the debris and concluded that it was frozen water. It seems quite a significant quantity of water was thrown up when LCROSS crashed [...]

Exploring new frontiers and what lies beyond in space may not be fictional anymore but the endless difficulties associated with space exploring are just as real. One of these is the difficulty of refueling once a spacecraft has left the Earth’s atmosphere. Returning to Earth to refuel or finding a refueling station were the only possibilities earlier [...]

So, NASA was competent enough to put man on moon and later on send a space probe to Mars, but it was too dumb to preserve the footage transmitted by Apollo 11. What seems downright more stupid is not that they misplaced the tapes or lost in an accident, but the wise men decided to tape over the original footage as NASA was short of video tapes in the [...]

All these years astronauts have been using the weird Russian made toilets, which usually went embarrassingly wrong while up in the space. In fact, the toilet needed prior training given to the astros. Now, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has unveiled a wearable toilet, which can be worn by the astronaut like a diaper. The excrements would be [...]