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China’s Shenzhou spacecraft is heavily inspired from Soyuz, and there are likely systems copied directly from Soyuz. However, with the benefits of 21st century development it’s not wedded to many
NASA’s Long Duration Exposure Facility started out as a meteorite exposure payload, but evolved to look at every aspect of material changes on orbit, in particular by the time it
Having worked on the avionics in my plane I got curious as to how the space shuttle would navigate itself thousands of miles through reentry to a pinpoint landing in
Astronaut Scott Altman (‘Scooter’) commanded STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope, no doubt his experience flying fighter jets helped make this landing. Before he was an astronaut he was
The Surveyor program was originally the grand plan for lunar exploration in the 1960’s until Kennedy decided to prioritize putting humans on the moon. Instead the Surveyor missions, developed and
Another installment of space news, let’s see if we can make this a weekly event this year, after all we expect enough launches to keep me busy. At least that’s
Astrobotic’s recent lunar mission had a few advertising partnets, Pocari Sweat and DHL were the most visible, and while many people expressed surprise at this, they were even more surprised
An Aerospool WT9 Dynamic Light Sport Aircraft – I’m 1/4 owner of this small plane. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I have a discord server
An extended answer to a question I keep seeing – can spacecraft avoid the furious heat of reentry by slowing down before reaching the atmosphere, or, but flying above it