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How to Name Mars
Mars, the fourth planet from the sun and the smallest planet in our Solar System, is known by many names across the English-speaking world, including the planet of Mars. In modern English, Mars is known as the planet of...
NASA
NASA’s budget is approved by an annual legislative process which starts with a written proposal from the president and ends with bills being enacted by Congress and signed into law by the president. The budget...
A Review of NASA’s Mars Mission Concept
A manned mission to Mars is the subject of scientific proposals, space science and aviation engineering for the last hundred years. Some are just plain crazy and others are the very idea of exploring space as we know it...
China Launches First Space Mission to Mars
In China’s first ever Mars mission, the Mars Orbiter spacecraft will explore the Red Planet’s atmosphere. China is currently the third largest space power, and their first robotic mission was a successful...
Space Missions
Space missions are the application of space science and astronomy to explore outer space. While the outer exploration of outer space is primarily done by human astronauts using telescopes with sophisticated cameras, its...
A Look at Humans on Mars
A manned mission to Mars is the topic of intense technological research, aerospace science and military concepts over the past century. Today, robotic space exploration has moved from the domain of scientists to the...
Discovering Mars
Discovering Mars When you first encounter the planet Mars, it can seem quite intimidating to think of this giant planet at first glance. Mars isn’t always easy to see from the surface of our Earth, and we can only...
What Is Absolute Space?
In our universe there is only one kind of space: absolute space. Absolute space is where things and events can never change from one position to another, where things cannot be separated from one another; it is an...
SpaceX
If there was ever a space plane that we have to be ready to land, it would be the SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is an all-electric crewed capsule designed to carry astronauts into low Earth...