Important manned NASA missions

Sometimes, organizations and entities become so universally known by a nickname or abbreviation that people can easily forget what exactly a particular acronym stands for. For over fifty years, one particular American institution has been known to its constituents and citizens of other nations by a certain four-letter abbreviation, based on that group’s track record [...]

The Milky Way Galaxy: our place in it and its place in the universe

One of the beauties of human existence is the way in which we relate to our world and come to process in terms that further our understanding. Though the star around which our planet and others travel and Earth’s own satellite did not come with labels attached, at least in terms of the English language, [...]

The definition of a space shuttle

For those who are just coming into adulthood and anyone else coming into awareness of the first moon landing, they will obviously be doing so after the fact and getting most of their information from secondhand sources. They also might tend to judge historical events by modern terms, or at the very least, think in [...]

The Hubble Telescope and its origins

There has been a desire to explore the stars and the distant reaches of the galaxy ever since we were able to see the other planets of our solar system. Ever since Galileo invented and proved the power of the telescope, the quest for knowledge has put a greater and greater demand on the improvement [...]

The legacy of the space shuttle program

While many instances of NASA launch may be immediately memorable to the American citizen who has lived through the Space Race and into the modern age, one of the most prominent would have to be the Apollo missions designed for lunar landing and analysis. However, in terms of being a space shuttle launch, to insist [...]