Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Hello everybody. In this Covid-19 (returning or ever-present, depending on which part of the globe you find yourself) madness, it is easy to forget to look up at the sky. Still, we have a lot of good reasons we should,…
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All eyes are pointed to the sky, looking at the weather, which remains the main obstacle so far to the historical Space X’s launch (why it is so crucial, anyway? read this). The launch had to be cancelled (‘scrubbed’) on…
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There has been some interesting news in these last weeks about space, both in terms of missions (I have talked about Lucy in my last post) and discoveries. Here some of the things I’ve found worth reading. We are two…
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As we approach the day of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing (20 July, and NASA has plans about it), it would be nice to get into the right (space) mood. The good news is there are great opportunities…
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2018 has been a record-shattering year -with more than 100 successful launches and mission achievements. What are we looking for in 2019? Another year that promises to be spectacular, as a matter of fact. It started with a bang, with…
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In case you haven’t heard the news, that’s the story of the day: Soyuz, the Russian vector that since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011 has been tasked with taking astronauts back and forth from the ISS, malfunctioned….
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In case you don’t know, we’re all getting ready for fall of a space lab on our heads, at some moments in the next two or three weeks. Worrying stuff, I agree. The station is Tiangong-1 (= the palace of Heaven) an…
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