On July 24, 1969, Apollo 11 met President Kennedy’s 1961 challenge of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth” before the end of the decade. The Smithsonian celebrates and ...
The Moon is no longer just a symbol of past glory. It is now viewed as the gateway between Earth and deep space: close enough to reach quickly, yet distant and hostile enough to test technologies, ...
Setting up a mining operation on an asteroid may be difficult (from Howstuffworks.com) Part III: Resource Utilization Considerations In Part I and Part II of this series, I examined some of the ...