Keraunothnetophobia, as defined by some online dictionaries, is the fear of falling artificial satellites and other space objects. It is not to be confused with Keraunophobia, the fear of lightning strikes. Although often regarded as especially irrational,...
Japan watched with bated breath to see if its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) would safely reach the lunar surface and make it only the fifth nation to achieve the feat, following the success of India’s Chandrayaan-3 last year. A live stream of the event by...
David Todd, Head of Space Content at Seradata, was invited to the opening night of The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks, a new audio visual show at The Lightroom in London. It is said that each generation thinks that its music is the best and that they invented...
The death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 30 August at the age of 91 prompted tributes to him from around the world in his role as a peacemaker and promoter of democratic freedoms during the Cold War. After Leonid Breznev finally died, followed by short...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, carrying a four-person crew in one of its Crew Dragon capsules. Lift-off for the mission known as “Inspiration4” was at 0002 GMT, 16 September, and the Resilience capsule was placed into a 200...
Following a troubled eight-day voyage the Nauka module has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), the first Russian module to do so in 11 years. Docking occurred at 1329 GMT on 29 July, according to on-board telemetry. The module approached...
