Description: Sketch sent to the Ministry of Defence of a UFO sighted over Woolwich, east London. Date: September 2003 Our Catalogue Reference: DEFE 24/2038 p.82 This image is from the collections of The National Archives. Feel free to share it within the spirit of the Commons. You can view the latest UFO files transferred from [...]
Russia is set to take space travel to a new level by building nuclear powered spacecraft. The new propulsion system could make it possible to go to Mars and beyond, as well as protect the Earth from asteroids.
October 7 is the launch date for SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on the first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. This will be the first of 12 contracted flights by SpaceX to resupply the space station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract and will restore an American capability to transport cargo to and from [...]
At 220 miles above Earth, the unattended Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft, docked to the International Space Station, almost appears to be a giant telescope focusing through a break in the clouds upon several islands in the Galapagos chain. Isabela is the most easily recognizable island among this chain in the Pacific Ocean. Image credit: NASA View [...]