Friday 22 October, 2021
Lucy is named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia nearly half a century ago.
The space agency declared the launch a success and said the crew “were in good shape”.
Star Trek actor William Shatner blasted off to space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket yesterday.
Shatner said it was ‘the most profound experience I can imagine’
The first scientific analysis of the images also reveals evidence that the crater endured flash floods.
The nation’s space chief hailed the project as a chance to raise the prestige of Russia’s space programme.
Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, Blue Origin, announced that Shatner will blast off on 12 October.
The SpaceX capsule carrying four space tourists landed in the Atlantic after three days in orbit.
The Dragon capsule’s two men and two women will spend three days circling the world.
EUSPA was officially launched this year as part of the EU’s €14.8 billion space programme.
And what will our first satellite in space do?
Thanks for travelling with us – we’ll see you in the next phase.
Polling carried out by Ireland Thinks found that just 11% of the public think the contribution should be increased.
The Good Information Project spent this month looking at space – so what did you learn?
Anthony Murphy outlines how the ancient dwellers built clever structures to work in harmony with the cosmos.
As part of The Good Information Project we’ve demystified some of the commonly-used terms about the 21st century space race.
We want to hear your hopes, dreams, and fears for the future of space exploration.
The next cycle of TGIP will look at Ireland and the EU’s role in the current space race.
The company is facing increasing pressure to improve working conditions.
Professor Tim Jackson says he’s not a technophobe, but that maybe humanity should pay more attention to the planet right now than heading into space.
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson made the voyage on 11 July, narrowly beating Bezos.
The three-man crew arrived at China’s Tianhe space station last week.
Astronomers have predicted the transformation of a star into a white dwarf will send its planets bouncing off each other’s gravity.
The Tianzhou-2 spacecraft reached the Tianhe station eight hours after blasting off from Hainan.
The shuttle, with two pilots on board, took off and landed today.
A rover will join an American craft which arrived at the red planet in February.
The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, ending the second astronaut flight for Elon Musk’s company.
A Nasa astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
The trio launched successfully from Russia’s leased Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.
Two previous test flights had crash-landed in fireballs.
Mission Control said it would need to work on “kindergarten skills” after some painted lines were slightly off.
The panorama is composed of 142 individual images stitched together on Earth, NASA said.
The agency also released new images the rover took on the Martian surface.
We’re starting another rotation around the sun. Here’s what to watch out for in the skies.
Scientists hope the precious samples could help shed light on the origin of life and the formation of the universe.
From TheJournal.ie
Chang’e 5 will return to earth with 2kg of moon rocks – it is expected to touch down in Mongolia later this month.
It is one step on a programme to send a manned mission to the satellite.
The four astronauts aboard the Dragon capsule will remain at the ISS for six months.
The flight to the space station – 27.5 hours door to door – should be entirely automated.
