Let's Go to Mars Together
We are currently celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. In the time since that, we have sent unmanned probes to the planets, developed and abandoned the reusable space...
View ArticleWas the Moon Landing a Hoax?
About a week ago, we celebrated the forty-fifth anniversary of Apollo 11, which marked the first landing of men on the moon. Or did we? For those of us old enough to remember, it marks one...
View ArticleUFOs of the Mind
Most people think of UFOs as a relatively recent phenomenon. It is true that UFOs didn't become a page-one item until just after World War Two, although even during the war military planes chased...
View ArticleIndian Spacecraft Enters Mars Orbit
India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft successfully maneuvered itself into orbit around the Red Planet on Tuesday .This event marked the first time a country other than the two original space...
View ArticleIs Pluto Really a Planet?
Is Pluto a planet? Millions of schoolchildren would undoubtedly answer yes, since one of the first things they learned in school was that the solar system had nine planets, and Pluto was the ninth...
View ArticleX-37B to Return This Week
Ever since the space shuttle program ended in 2011, the United States has been extremely limited in its operations in space. For example, if it wanted to send an astronaut to the International Space...
View ArticleChildhood's End Miniseries to Air on SyFy Channel
There are many ways to invade a world. The invaders don't always come clearly marked, like those in the story War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells, or in mile-wide spaceships in films like Independence...
View ArticleOrion, Apollo, and Mankind's Future in Space
The recent success of the test flight of the Orion manned space capsule, as well as the upcoming rendezvous of the New Horizons spacecraft with planet, dwarf planet, or whatever Pluto, has the promise...
View ArticleSolar Flare Threatens the Earth
The sun fired off a massive solar flare late Friday (Dec. 19), after days of intense storms from our nearest star.The huge solar flare registered as an X1.8-class event, one of the most powerful types...
View ArticleAre the Borg Coming for Us?
It has been a little more than fifty years that scientists have been actively looking for signs of intelligent life in the universe other than our own. Of course, looking at the news, there are times...
View ArticleNew Horizons Gets Ready to Explore Pluto
The New Horizons spacecraft, which was launched from Cape Canaveral back in January 2006, is coming to the end of its nine year, four billion mile voyage to explore Pluto and it's surrounding moons....
View ArticleCity in the Sky
The concept of human beings living in, as opposed to merely spending brief periods of time in, space is not a new one. In the 1950s, space scientists such as Werner von Braun visualized spinning...
View ArticleUFOs - Invaders From Space?
UFOs have been observed in some form or another since at least as far back as the year 3000 BC. In the 1800s, they manifested themselves as giant dirigible-like airships at a time when man had yet to...
View ArticleWas the Great Pyramid Built by Ancient Astronauts?
The true nature and origin of the pyramids and the Sphinx have fascinated mankind for almost as long as they've been in existence, about which there is considerable controversy. According to...
View ArticleWill We Ever Return to the Moon?
The 19th century American humorist Mark Twain once made an observation that might help explain why the U.S. Space program has seemingly stagnated; why, nearly a half-century after Apollo 11 landed on...
View ArticleThe Hubble Space Telescope is 25 Years Old
The Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched twenty-five years ago on April 25, 1990 aboard the Endeavor space shuttle, the replacement for the Challenger shuttle that exploded shortly after launch...
View ArticleTo Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
In the debate over the future of manned space exploration, there has always existed a conflict over two questions; first, are human beings or robotic spacecraft more effective in exploring the...
View ArticleTomorrowland
Fifty years ago, the world today wasn't supposed to look the way it does. We were supposed to live in sky-high towers like the Jetsons, and take a flying car to work that collapsed into an attache...
View ArticleDid UFOs Fly in the Skies of Ancient India?
The Vedic period of ancient India, which extended roughly from 8000 B.C to 2500 B.C,,is shrouded in myth and mystery. This is hardly surprising, since this time goes back to a time before written...
View ArticleShould Pluto Be a Planet Again?
Now that the New Horizons spacecraft has completed its flyby of Pluto, people are again beginning to question the wisdom of the decision by the International Astronomical Union in 2006 that Pluto,...
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