“In the 1940s and 50s the first flowering of Scottish space fiction was on radio, with young adult fiction by John Keir Cross from Carluke (The Angry Planet, Return to Mars) and Angus MacVicar from Campbeltown, two of whose Lost Planet serials also made it to television”
“With these first observations, we have just barely scratched the surface of what is to come with the completion of this program, next year.” – Santosh Harish, a postdoctoral research associate at RIT.
A full list of nonfiction on astronomy and spaceflight by Scottish writers would be a major undertaking.
New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have provided the first confirmation that the water in our Solar System may come from the same place as the water in disks surrounding protostars elsewhere in the Universe: the interstellar medium. Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
In 1978 NASA was investigating the environment around the Earth’s orbit with Pioneer 6, 7, 8 and 9
The Moon will be Full on March 7th, and it will be New on March 21st, the day after the spring equinox on March 20th.
“The greater thrust of rockets at altitude was harnessed in the ‘Rockoon’ experiments of the 1950s , culminating in Project Farside, where 4-stage solid rockets were launched through the carrier balloons at high altitude “
“There were joint studies by NASA and ESA for a Montgolfière hot-air balloon with a radioactive isotope power source, and NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts office added the Titan Aerial Daughtercraft (TAD), a small helicopter which would return periodically to the balloon to recharge its batteries”
“There are no major showers this months, but there are hopes for Comet 2022 E3, which was nearing naked-eye visibility in mid-January. The comet will be at its nearest to the Earth on February 1st, at a distance of 43 million kilometres. “
Astronauts on the Space Station conduct numerous experiments. This week the research has involved how to improve bone healing therapies both on Earth and in space. The Expedition 68 crew members also […]
