China wants to put astronauts on the moon by 2036 Business Insider BEIJING (Reuters) - China wants to put astronauts on the moon by 2036, a senior space official said, the latest goal in China's ambitious lunar exploration program. | China in 2003 became the third country to put a man in space with its own rocket after the former Soviet Union and the United States....
Tim Peake to control machine from International Space Station BBC News British astronaut Tim Peake is set to take part in an experiment to control a machine on Earth from his base on the International Space Station. | Orbiting 250 miles above our planet, he will try to remotely guide a European Space Agency rover, named Bridget. | Bridget, meanwhile, will find itself i...
Lack of political will strains U.S. space program Tampa Bay Online Last week, China announced that it plans to land a rover on Mars by 2020. The Russian Federal Space Agency is working with the European Space Agency. Every major power in the world has some form of interest in Mars. Like 1961, when Russia first rocke...
Astronaut Tim Peake drives UK-based robot from orbit on ISS Scotsman Tim Peake has successfully taken control of a UK-based robot while orbiting the Earth from space in a pioneering experiment. | The British astronaut began remotely driving the explorer this afternoon through a simulated Martian landscape. | Working f...
Tim Peake test drives UK-based rover from space in simulated Martian landscape The Independent British astronaut Tim Peake has undertaken a pioneering mission, managing to successfully control a robot on Earth while some 250 miles above the planet on the International Space Station. | Major Peake commanded the rover on Friday through a simulat...
Mars prototype 'Bridget' on a slow test drive Reuters European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake drives the Mars Rover prototype called "Bridget" at Airbus's Mars Yard test area as part of an experiment of controlling it from the International Space Station (ISS). The British-built rover will be se...
Astronaut Scott Kelly to Speak at University of Houston's Commencement Houston Press A A | Facebook- | Twitter - | More shares recommend reddit email - | - | As commencement approached, we'd been wondering how the University of Houston would top last year's impressive address by Academy Award-winner Matthew McConaughey. &nb...;
ESA astronaut Tim Peake controls rover from space European Space Agency ESA astronaut Tim Peake today controlled, from the International Space Station, a rover nicknamed Bridget at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage as part of an international experiment to prepare for human–robotic missions to the Moon, M...
Tim Peake to control machine from International Space Station BBC News British astronaut Tim Peake is set to take part in an experiment to control a machine on Earth from his base on the International Space Station. | Orbiting 250 miles above our planet, he will try to remotely guide a European Space Agency rover, named Bridget. | Bridget, meanwhile, will find itself in a simulated Martian landscape set up in a hangar...
Kenya Set To Burn World's Largest Ever Ivory Stockpile IFL Science This Saturday will see the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) set fire to its entire ivory stockpile, in what will be the largest ivory burn in history. Around 105 tonnes (115 tons) of the stuff will be set ablaze in Nairobi National Park as a symbol that the slaughter of elephants and the illegal trade of their tusks is simply unacceptable and is rapid...
