By National Space Society Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys which became the movie October Sky, summed it up this way: “This is as important a book on space as has ever been written and it’s a riveting page-turner, too.” On May 30, 2020, a Falcon 9 rocket roared off historic pad 39A in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The missionContinue reading “Book Review: Liftoff, Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX”
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Space race: China is also on Mars
China’s Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet. More impressively still, China is the first Mars-going nation to carry out an orbiting, landing and rovering operation as its first mission. Zhurong, named after the god of fire in Chinese mythology, separated from the Tianwen-1 orbiter andContinue reading “Space race: China is also on Mars”