Captains Log 13102021, Blue Origin successfully completed its second human flight into space on board the New Shepard spacecraft on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. The flight included astronauts, Dr. Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries, Audrey Powers, and William Shatner. Star Treks Captain Kirk, “To boldly go where no man has gone before“, a.k.a. 90-year-old William […]
Jeff Bezos successfully competed a flight into space on 20 July 2021 aboard the rocket New Shepard, produced by his company Blue Origin, together with 3 other passengers Mark Bezos, Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen. They all became astronauts officially when they passed the Kármán Line, the internationally recognized boundary of space. The flight lasted […]
Virgin Galactic successfully completed its first fully-crewed Spaceflight on 11 July 2021. It was the 22nd test flight of VSS Unity and the first test flight with a full crew in the cabin, including the Company’s founder, Sir Richard Branson. and some more pictures VSS Unity achieved a speed of Mach 3 after being released […]
The Mars helicopter, Ingenuity is being readied for its first flight. The target date will be “from 8 Apr 2021” for Ingenuity to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. Before the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) rotorcraft can attempt its first flight, however, both it and its team must meet […]
Nasa has made available videos captured during the landing of Perseverance on the surface of Mars More available at https://www.youtube.com/c/NASAJPL/videos
Recently pictures released by NASA from the Mission 2020 to Mars. All images are from https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/ and are made available by NASA/JPL-Caltech Part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot. One of the six […]
Nasa’s Mars Perseverance Rover has landed safely on the surface of Mars at Jezero Crater after a 203-day journey travelling 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST). The first images were […]
The NASA Mars 2020 mission is due to land the Perseverance Rover on the surface of Mars at approximately 19:55 GMT on 18 February 2021. This is what should happen and where its happening LIVE https://youtu.be/gm0b_ijaYMQ or https://youtu.be/GIooAx_GkJs
China’s Tianwen 1 unmanned spacecraft is set to enter an orbit around Mars on Wednesday 10 February 2021 following its successful launch on 23 July 2020 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province. It is the second of 3 separate missions to reach Mars (by UAE, China and USA) which launched in July […]
It’s getting crowded at Mars! There are currently 3 active missions to Mars and the first has arrived. The Hope Probe, Tianwen-1 and Mars 2020, all launched in July 2020 when the Earth and Mars were especially close to one another, to reduce travel time to the Red Planet by about two months. Emirates Mars […]
Perseverance is due to touch down on Mars in two weeks time, Thursday 18 February 2021, at approximately 20:55 GMT. It has travelled around 275,800,000 miles so far and there are around 16,670,000 miles remaining to reach Mars at a speed of 48,795 mph. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/cruise/ The rover will begin its descent towards the surface at […]
Mars 2020 is a NASA mission to Mars which launched from Earth on 30 July 2020 at 12:50 GMT and is due to land on Mars on 18 Feb 2021 at the Jezero Crater. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/overview/ The spacecraft is carrying the Perseverance rover which will land on the surface of Mars. The Perseverance rover will seek […]