Search results
May 23, 2024 · Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a British-American spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group conglomerate which retains an 11.9% stake through Virgin Investments Limited. [2] It is headquartered in California, and operates from New Mexico. The company develops commercial spacecraft and provides suborbital ...
1 day ago · On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC ). It was the first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft ...
People also ask
How did SpaceShipTwo get its name?
Does Blue Origin have a suborbital spacecraft?
Why was 'Space Oddity' not translated into Italian?
Who owns the Spaceship Company?
4 days ago · Space Oddity. " Space Oddity " is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was first released on 11 July 1969 by Philips Records as a 7-inch single, then as the opening track of his second studio album, David Bowie.
May 3, 2024 · An Earth-like ocean world. K2-18 b is between two and three times the width of Earth with 8.6 times the mass of our planet. It's also located in the habitable zone of its star, the region neither ...
May 15, 2024 · This ancient asteroid family may help us find out. The Erigone family of asteroids are water-rich space rocks that provide a window into the solar system's past. A family of primitive asteroids is ...
May 9, 2024 · Titan, moon of Saturn, photographed by Voyager 2 on August 25, 1981, at a distance of 907,000 km (564,000 miles). Green and violet images were combined to make this photograph, which shows the extended atmosphere of the satellite. Titan, the largest moon of Saturn and the only moon in the solar system known to have clouds and a dense atmosphere.
May 3, 2024 · Cassini drew its electric power from the heat generated by the decay of 33 kg (73 pounds) of plutonium, the largest amount of a radioactive element ever launched into space.
