The Apollo 11 command module entered the atmosphere at 16:35:05 GMT (11:35:05 Houston…
A Mission Control Center (MCC) is a facility from which personnel operate remote resources needed to conduct a mission. In the case of NASA, that usually means a spacecraft. Below is a picture of MCC-H, the NASA Mission Control Center for the International Space Station…
After a 15 hour day that began with a three hour meeting and ended with a six hour software testing session that required sending 67 pages of commands. I thought I’d take a walk through the grove, before driving home.
There have been numerous experiments into plant growth in space. It’s important to scientists on the…
It is over complicating it a bit to worry about the influences of the other bodies. They do influence, but…
We don’t really perceive depth when we look up at the stars and planets. They all appear to be moving across a flat plane. In the below picture, we have an inner planet and an outer planet. We can pretend they are the Earth and Mars, if we want. The inner…
This week is the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. That has gotten people excited about this adventure that mankind accomplished half a century ago. That made me think it was a good time to share some of my favorite books on…
For millennia our species has looked up at the moon and imagined walking on its surface. Almost 2000 years ago, a writer…
These were the top 10 stories published by The Wonders of Space; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2015, 2019.