Early American Missiles/Rockets Of The Space Race
From Missiles To The Moon The Space Race was a mad dash between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop the best rockets! This lead to a race…
Spectacular Rocket Failures During Launch 💥
‘Unplanned Rapid Disassembly’ The initial takeoff phase of a rocket launch is a particularly risky portion of the rocket flight with many failures occurring during this critical phase. This occasionally…
Major Rocket Launch Sites
Launch Pads, Spaceports & Cosmodromes! A spaceport (or cosmodrome) is a site for launching spacecraft into orbit around Earth on interplanetary trajectories and can include the launch complex infrastructure, storage…
Private Sub-orbital Spaceflights With Virgin Galactic
All Aboard SpaceShip II! Founded by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic is a spaceflight company that aims to take private space tourist on sub-orbital spaceflights. The flights would be aboard…
Russian Space Tourism To The International Space Station
Private Orbital Spaceflight! On account of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) experiencing cash shortages through the 1990’s, they decided to accept private space tourists to fly in the Russian Soyuz…
Space Tourism – Commercializing The New Frontier
Private Trips To Space Throughout history becoming an astronaut or space explorer has been a dream, for not just millions of children, but adults too and it’s closer than ever…
Learn About Alan Shepard – America’s First Man In Space!
One Of The Mercury Seven Alan Shepard was one of the original group of NASA astronauts known as the ‘Mercury Seven’. In May 1961, Alan would pilot the American Mercury-Redstone…
Taikonauts The Chinese Space Travellers
The Chinese Reach New Heights Taikonaut is the name in Chinese given to ‘space travellers’ otherwise known as ‘astronauts’ in English and is even derived from “space” (tàikōng) in Mandarin…
Facts About Scott Kelly And His Year In Space
Twins In Space! Scott Kelly is a retired US Navy Captain and NASA astronaut who is the veteran of 4 spaceflights, 520 days in space, former Commander of the International…
Facts About NASA Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
A Life Of Space! Buzz Aldrin is most famously remembered for being the second human to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, shortly after Neil…