New Horizons was launched into space one afternoon in 2006 on an unprecedented journey towards Pluto. Carrying an array of instruments with it, New Horizons broke records as it set course towards this distant planet. Visible light cameras could count craters, map hills and valleys, scan for frosty methane lakes and observe how stars dim…
Nations aim to build spacecraft that can land astronauts on the Moon and return them safely, as well as explore more about this distant destination in order to make it suitable for human settlement and exploration. To do so, they have adopted the basic rocket design that NASA pioneered with Sputnik. The Space Race After…
Since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, humans have been venturing into space. NASA is leading the way, but private companies, such as SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, are also developing capabilities that were once solely the domain of government agencies. Americans are largely supportive of NASA and…
