SpaceX turns to Ukrainian AN-124 plane for emergency delivery of oversized rocket parts to...
"Jan 3, 2018 Subject: Request for Antonov Support SpaceX requests An-124 to transport rocket hardware (payload fairing halves) to expedite processing of the coming missions.. US Domestic...
Canadian Spaceport in Nova Scotia Gets Environment Ministry Approval to Move Forward
"Maritime Launch Services is a Halifax based startup looking to build a spaceport in Nova Scotia to launch satellites. They plan on initially...
Gravitational Slingshot Trajectory adopted by Apollo-11 program to reach the Moon is named after...
New Mexico Museum of Space History: "Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk (1897-1942). Born as Aleksandr Shargei, he took a new name to avoid persecution during the...
Sergei Korolev and Gagarin’s first human flight into space on April 12, 1961
Asif Azam Siddiqi is a Bangladeshi American space historian and a Guggenheim Fellowship winner. He is a professor of history with a specialization in...
Ukrainian Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force credited for initiation of GPS: Michael...
But Yarymovych knew the idea of space-based navigation was beautiful; it just wasn’t being sold right. He went to his boss, Air Force...
First Sputnik was launched Oct. 4, 1957. Korolev, Glushko were two major contributors to...
Asif Azam Siddiqi is a professor of history with a specialization in the history of science and technology. When the Soviet archives opened in the 1990s,...
Ballistic missiles deployed to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 were both...
The book 'Rockets and People' is part of the NASA History Series. It was written by the Soviet Academician Boris Chertok. The Preface to...
Ukraine reactivates unique S-300V1 strategic air defence system
The unique features of S-300V1 air defense system consist in that is the world’s only truly mobile Anti Ballistic Missile system. The S-300V...
The founder of Geosynchronous Communications Satellite industry Joseph V. Charyk was born in Canada to a...
Joseph Vincent Charyk (September 9, 1920 – September 28, 2016) was widely credited as the founder of the geosynchronous communications satellite industry. He was born...
Yuzhnoye SDO celebrates successul launch of Antares
"Antares LV consists of two stages and Cygnus cargo vehicle (third stage). Core structure of the Antares’ first stage was developed by Yuzhnoye SDO...
