The American space agency NASA has 510 accounts on 14 media platforms, through which they try to explain complex research and inventions in a language that is commonly understood. Three people manage the agency's online communications from its headquarters in Washington, and each NASA center has...
According to NASA, a record 2017 applications have been submitted for the 18 astronaut training program. It will take the space agency a year and a half to complete a team of 300 people based on testing. Judging by the competition, getting into the space squad will be 14 times ...
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that a XNUMX-fold increase in productivity would not help Russia catch up with the United States in the space industry. “Well, we will raise it by one and a half times, but we will never catch up with them,” Rogozin said at the collegium of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, noting that today Russia ...
The Ukrainian project MarsHopper became the winner of the international Space Apps Challenge competition, which was held by NASA for the fifth year in a row, in the “Audience Award” category. A team from Kyiv offers an alternative technology for moving on the surface of Mars, for which an analogue of a jetpack and a model of a rocket plane have been developed,…
The director of the ninth episode of "Star Wars" said that he intends to shoot the film on film, while abandoning digital technologies. “This decision was determined by the film itself. After all, what we’re filming happened a long time ago,” Variety quotes Colin Trevorrow as saying. His speech in defense...
British astronaut Tim Peak filmed a short video demonstrating the work of the toilet on the International Space Station. He explained that everyone is constantly asking astronauts how this happens. Peak showed the tube, which is needed to cope with a small need. To use the tube, you need to open the lid and unscrew the tap that activates ...
2016 is rich in astronomical events that simply cannot be missed. Using data from the website Astronet.ru, “Forum” has compiled a list of the most interesting of them - add it to your calendar so as not to miss it. One of the brightest meteor showers “Quadrantids” The powerful meteor shower “Quadrantids”, formed as a result of the death…
On the night of Monday, January 4, the Earth will pass through a field of space debris left over from an extinct comet. Upon entering the atmosphere, this debris is ignited, creating a so-called meteor shower, writes Vox. This event was named Quadrantid, and it will be the first ...
Astronomer Stuart Gray of the Royal Institution of Great Britain has created an impressive video showing the process of human pollution of near-Earth space over the past 60 years. A pioneer in the pollution of near-earth space was the USSR, whose first artificial Earth satellite was launched in 1957, and ...
The head of the American aerospace company Blue Origin Jeff Bezos, who is the founder of the Internet company Amazon, announced the successful test of the world's first reusable launch vehicle. The New Shepard rocket, named after the first American astronaut, launched an uninhabited capsule to an altitude of 100 kilometers. ...