Category: Space
FOR ALL MANKIND: AN ALTERNATE STORY OF THE MOON LANDING WRITTEN BY DONALD B. MOORE
Another “what if” story depicting what would have happened if the global space race had never ended” in the 70s. For All Mankind is an American science fiction-web television series created and written by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and…
A BRIEF HISTORY OF AN EXPERIENCE OUT OF THIS WORLD: EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY
Remember EVA? Not EVA the robot mate from Wall-e but the real extravehicular activity which accounts for the acronym?. Some news raised this week around the first female “couple” outside, then just as a quick recap…
MAKING HISTORY: THE FIRST EVER PHOTO OF A BLACK HOLE FINALLY RELEASED.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Using a global network of telescopes to see “the unseeable,” an international scientific team on Wednesday announced a milestone in astrophysics – the first-ever photo of a black hole – in an…
THE UNFORGETTABLE POEM QUOTED BY MICHAEL CAINE ON THE INTERSTELLAR MOVIE: DYLAN THOMAS “DO NO GOT GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT”
By Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Poet quoted by Michael Caine on Interstellar movie. “Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the…
WE MIGHT BE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE: THE FERMI PARADOX AND THE ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN IT.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke By Jesus Padilla The Fermi paradox, is a term coined after physicist Enrico Fermi established the…
READY FOR LIFT OFF: SATURN V, THE ROCKET THAT PUT THE MAN ON THE MOON.
By Ian Gonzalez Lopez One of the most known components of the Cold War between the USA and the USSR was the so called Space Race, which drove a thrilling technological innovation in both countries,…
HOW THE WORLD WILL END? A COMPREHENSIVE LIST ACCORDING TO PROFESSOR STEPHEN W. HAWKING
Stephen William Hawking born January 8, 1942 and died March 14, 2018 was an English theoretical physicist and Director of Research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, he has been known as the last most…
A LEGACY FROM THE BIG BANG: THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
Gravitational waves are ripples that happen within the curvature of spacetime and are generated in certain gravitational interactions and propagate as waves outward from their source at the unbelievable speed of light. Albert Einstein predicted the existence of…
THE STORY BEHIND THE 4Oth ANNIVERSARY OF THE VOYAGER SPACECRAFT: SAGAN´S “GOLDEN” DISC.
BACKGROUND The Voyager 1 probe is the farthest human made object released from the Earth and now has reached interstellar space abandoned the boundaries of our solar system. The Voyager 1 is a space probe launched…
HOW THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY SKYROCKETED: SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON ECLIPSE EXPERIMENT.
May 29, 1919. BACKGROUND. By the time Albert Einstein developed his general theory, he was back in Germany, working in Berlin. But a copy of his general theory of relativity was soon revealed at Cambridge….
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MAN BEHIND THE APOLLO SPACE PROGRAM: WERNHER VON BRAUN
#space #science Wernher von Braun was a German, later American aerospace…