Sigmund Jaehn, who became the first German in space at the height of the Cold War in the 1970s and was promoted by communist authorities as an East German hero, has died. He was 82. The German ...
It all sounds grand and, after decades of disappointment and lost ambition in space, perhaps a little too far-fetched.
Astronaut Dr Jessica Meir described the challenges of wearing a spacesuit from the 1970s in 2019. It's "incredibly cumbersome," and "pressurized," she told Insider in an exclusive interview. She said ...
In the 1970s, the NASA Ames Research Center commissioned artwork envisioning what life in space may look like. The results were retrofuturistic paintings that feature huge living quarters and ...
Unsurprisingly, near-miss collisions are on the rise: Not only did the recent Russian anti-satellite test create debris that jeopardized the lives of the astronauts on the International Space Station, ...
NASA’s timeless “worm” logo is back. The NASA logo was introduced in the mid-70s, retired in 1992, and then brought back — only for a while — in 2020. Now, it’s back for good. NASA officially returned ...
When you think of today's space rockets you think of a system comprising a small number of boosters (up to three, most commonly) on top of which the payload in need of delivery to orbit or elsewhere ...