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Space race timeline. 2 August 1955: The USSR responds to the US announcement that they intend to launch the first artificial satellite into space with a satellite of their own. 4 October 1957: The USSR successfully launches Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting satellite in history. 3 November 1957: The USSR successfully launches Sputnik 2 ...
In his new book, The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World, author Tim Marshall lays bare the geopolitical realities to show how we got here and where we’re going. Below, Tim talks us through the new space race, introducing the key players and their goals, the tensions already being exposed, and what needs ...
The Afronauts photo book has been described as a ‘fictional record’ of the Zambian Space Programme. The images depict a Moon landing with an African twist, as well as capturing the ‘homemade’ feel of Nkoloso’s project. In the photos the helmets are made out of glass domes from old street lamps, and de Middel’s 92-year-old ...
Conspiracy theories surrounding the Moon landings have proved worryingly persistent in the 50 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first small steps on the lunar surface. NASA's landmark achievement is still being challenged. Despite there being a wealth of information online debunking these conspiracy theories, the cries of ...
A mouse was launched into space on 15 August 1950 but did not survive the return journey. In the 1950s, the US and the Soviet Union launched a total of 12 dogs on various suborbital flights, Laika being the first. On 31 January 1961, the first hominid was launched into space. A chimpanzee named Ham was part of the US-led Mercury space programme.
The three astronauts on Apollo 11. The Apollo 11 crew consisted of three men. Neil Armstrong - Mission Commander. Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin - lunar module pilot. Michael Collins - command module pilot. There were three parts to the spacecraft. The command module, which was the part that would return to Earth and was where the three astronauts ...
Space launch calendar 2021. Find out about the biggest space missions and rocket launches scheduled for this year, with details of upcoming missions from NASA, the European Space Agency, SpaceX and more. Page 1.
Discover the history of the space race - and what the future holds for life outside Earth's orbit... Fifty years on from the Apollo 11 Moon landing, a new 'space race' is underway. Discover more about the biggest space missions in the history of humankind and the key missions scheduled the year ...
Why NASA stopped going to the moon. The race to land humans on the Moon was kickstarted by President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas, now known as the ‘We Choose to go to the Moon’ speech. In the speech, Kennedy committed to getting a human to walk on the Moon by the end of the decade: "And this will be ...
Earth From Space. See the world through a satellite’s lens, and explore our changing planet at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Open daily | 10am-5pm. Free for Planetarium show ticketholders and Royal Observatory visitors.