A group of Russian engineers and astronautics enthusiasts plans to raise one million rubles on the domestic crowdfunding platform “Boomstarter” and launch a satellite into lunar orbit, which should answer the question that has been troubling the whole world for 45 years: have Americans been on the Moon?...
On Monday, the lunar eclipse coincided with the so-called supermoon. The Moon revolves around the Earth in a slightly elongated, elliptical orbit and at the time of the eclipse will be at perigee - the point closest to the Earth. As a result, she looks significantly larger than usual. Moon eclipse,…
85-year-old American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second after Neil Armstrong to visit the lunar surface, together with the Florida Institute of Technology, will prepare a plan for the colonization of Mars. Aldrin hopes to establish a settlement on the planet in 25 years, in 2039. In this case…
NASA's DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) spacecraft managed to obtain a rare image of the far side of the Moon against the background of the Earth - from the Lagrange point of the Earth-Sun system (objects located in it are equally attracted to both cosmic bodies). This was reported in…
The US National Aerospace Museum began collecting money for the conservation of the spacesuit in which astronaut Neil Armstrong made the first walk on the moon in human history. The organizers of the crowdfunding campaign explain the need for funding by the fact that in the 1960s, spacesuits were made without relying on ...
On the night of July 2, residents of the European part of Russia will be able to observe the Blue Moon. This is reported in the monthly astronomical forecast published on the website of the Moscow Planetarium. The Blue Moon is a phenomenon in which a full moon is observed twice in one month. In 2015 ...
For the third time in less than a year, US residents will be able to witness a total lunar eclipse. The astronomical event will begin on April 4 at around 3:16 a.m. PST, at which point the edge of the moon's disk will begin to enter Earth's shadow. Then…