When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches an Earth-observing radar satellite for Japanese company Synspective on August 2, 2024. | Source: Rocket Lab This article was originally published on The Conversation, which contributed it to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed &… Read More »
Curious Kids is a series for kids of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. What is space made of – what does gravity actually bend? – Phil, aged 12, Birmingham When you think of space, what comes to mind? Imagine a friend bragging about… Read More »
The past decade has seen rapid expansion of the commercial space industry, with rival nations jockeying for key military and economic positions beyond Earth, public and private enterprises scrambling to mine the Moon, and a growing halo of space debris littering low-Earth orbit. In a 2023 white paper, a group of concerned astronomers warned against… Read More »
Charles Bolden He served as the 12th NASA Administrator, becoming only the second astronaut to hold that position. Bolden is Founder and CEO Emeritus of Charles F. Bolden Group Ambassador Stuart Holliday Following the President’s nomination and Senate confirmation, he served as U.S. Ambassador for Special Political Affairs at the United Nations (2003-2005). Holliday is… Read More »
It was a moment like no other for a group of well-wishers, including this reporter, standing with their noses up, squinting at the sky, at California’s Mojave Airport on June 21, 2004. Escape the White Knight mothership, the rocket engine propelling the experimental suborbital vehicle SpaceshipA The vehicle came to life, expertly controlled by test… Read More »
Felix Barratt is artistic director of pioneering theater company Punchdrunk, which has created the immersive theater mainstream with a series of acclaimed shows for over two decades. Here he talks about the company’s major shows… Mask of the Red Death Battersea Arts Center (2007) (Stephen Dobbie) We had done a few big demonstrations in huge… Read More »
It’s been almost four and a half years since it was made in space, but if you could smell it today, you’d see that the DoubleTree Cookie still retains its distinctive scent. The cookie, the world’s first food item baked in space, went on display Wednesday, May 8, at the National Air and Space Museum’s… Read More »
Canada’s military could have modern satellite coverage in the Arctic a decade earlier than anticipated if the federal government is willing to follow the example of other countries and embrace commercial options in space, a House of Commons committee heard Monday. Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA Canada, told committee members that Canada lags behind the… Read More »
Prof Claudia de Rham is a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, developing and testing “new models and paradigms” at the intersection of gravity, cosmology and particle physics. He just published his first book The Beauty of Falling: A Life Chasing GravityTraining as an astronaut, diver and pilot, he describes his lifelong struggle to understand… Read More »