At that moment, when the engine of the last stage ceases to work, an extraordinary sensation of lightness begins - as if you fall out of the seat of the chair and hang on the seat belts. Stops ...

In childhood, every Soviet boy dreamed of becoming an astronaut. And only one in a million had such a dream come true. One of the main barriers that got in the way of those who wished to conquer space ...

In the middle of the last century, jet manned aircraft, gradually mastering all new speeds and heights, was able to come close to the threshold of space. The first success was achieved by the Americans: October 14 ...

Last Sunday, April 21, the new American launch vehicle Antares made its first launch from the MARS space center in Virginia. Spaceport, located on the island of Wallops, ...

The US will have to make a choice between the creation of a lunar base and the development of asteroids. According to US President Barack Obama, each of these programs will be very expensive, so choose ...

12 April we celebrated the 52-th anniversary of the first manned space flight. This date itself - 12 April 1961 of the year - became a kind of milestone, which allowed us to announce to the world unprecedented ...

In the United States published a report with a commercial forecast of the development of the global market for military satellites. In 2012, this segment of the space industry was estimated at 11,8 billion. The authors of the report ...

12 March 2013 of the year in the Federation Council held a round table on the theme "On the development of measures to ensure planetary security against space risks and threats." A report to the senators made ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite of Earth into space, thus opening a new era in the history of mankind - the era of space exploration. Over the years that have passed since the 50 years ...

The H-1 super heavy launch vehicle was called the “Tsar-rocket” for its large dimensions (the starting weight is almost 2500 tons, the height is 110 meters), and also the goals set during the work on it. The rocket was supposed to ...

The probe floats in an icy void. Three years have passed since its launch at Baikonur, and a long road stretched a billion kilometers behind. Safely crossed the asteroid belt, fragile devices ...

A handful of soil, which was picked up on the crest of the Camelot lunar crater, slipped off the usual scoop into a special teflon bag and went with the Apollo 17 team to Earth. In that...

The Federal Target Program (FTP) to counter the cosmic threat may receive a start in life. Russian specialists from the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Roscosmos and TsNIIMASH created a project ...

But NASA astronauts are at risk of getting stuck on Earth forever. Due to financial difficulties, a difficult situation has developed around the “flagship program” of the American Space Agency ....

For many thousands of years, man gazed into the starry sky and asked himself the same question - are we alone in the Universe? Over time, the technology possessed by mankind ...

The meteor shower, which passed over the February Urals 15, showed how vulnerable humanity and defenseless were before the space threat. A meteorite that exploded over Chelyabinsk, for a happy ...

It seems that now we can observe events that are in some way reminiscent of what happened in the fifties and sixties of the last century. More than clearly there has been a new space race, in ...

The leaders of Russia and Kazakhstan agreed on the further joint mutually beneficial use of the Baikonur cosmodrome - this statement was made on the results of the visit of the Kazakh President Nursultan ...

Aircraft "flying wing", rocket planes, aircraft on electric propulsion, when it comes to planes of the future, manufacturers usually do not skimp on a variety of exotic designs ....

At the end of 2013, the Russian Defense Ministry is going to test a modernized version of the Krona anti-satellite complex, the Izvestia newspaper reports, citing its own sources ...