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Peenemünde, Emil Leeb, Fritz Todt, Wernher von Braun

Apollo 11 Anniversary: Wernher Von Braun and the Ethics of Techno-Capitalism

Peter Eramian 16/07/2020

To separate science from the economic formations that support...

Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin Buzz Aldrin, Eagle has landed, Space Age, NASA, International Space Station, Chandrayaan 2, Gaganyaan, Sputnik 1, Indian Space Research Organisation, Saturn V, Apollo 13, Apollo 20,

The Unplanned Legacy of Apollo 11

Prakash Chandra 20/07/2019

A half-century after Apollo 11, the progress achieved by...

first men on the moon, Apollo 11, NASA, moon mission, human spaceflight, Van Allen radiation belts, James A. Van Allen, cosmic rays, protons, electrons, slot region, plasmasphere, plasmaspheric hiss, rockoons, Sputnik satellite, Explorer satellite, Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2, Sputnik 3, Explorer 1, Explorer 2, Explorer 3, Sergei Vernov, World War II, Cold War, Harry Messel, translunar injection, Operation Dominic, Fishbowl events, Starfish Prime, nuclear test, Telstar 1, magnetosheath, geomagnetic tail, space radiation, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Buzz Aldrin Jr., solar storm, solar wind,

Five Moon-Landing Innovations that Changed Life on Earth

Jean Creighton 10/07/2019

Getting to space has allowed people to turn their...

astrometry, Gaia space probe, European Space Agency - ESA, telescope, astrolabe, armillary sphere, trigonometry, Hipparchus, parallax effect, heliometer telescope, 61 Cygni, Astrographic Catalogue, Space Age, Milky Way galaxy, white dwarf stars, Kepler space telescope, Hubble's constant, quadrants, sextants, astronomy,

From Hipparchus to Gaia, the Story of Finding Our Place Among Billions of Stars

Jatan Mehta 27/02/2019

Although astrometry is over 2,200 years old, it wasn't...

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Debate: Whalers of Old Aren’t Like Astronauts Because of the Anxieties of Frontiers

Subhadeepta Ray 28/01/2018

The interplay between biology and culture reflects racial anxieties...

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Crosstalk: Understanding Counterintuitive Science Needs a Culture of Rigorous Scepticism

Sunil Laxman 20/05/2016

For most organisms, it can be very beneficial from...