Next step for mankind....
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Opportunity – A Tribute
Bye Bye Oppy...
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Falcon Heavy – Up, up and away(and back) in few days. What should you know about this beautiful beast?
Falcon Heavy is by far the powerful rocket to have been manufactured. Thanks to SpaceX, it will liftoff on Feb 6 2018 from the launch pad 39A, located at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral – the same one used by NASA’s Apollo moon missions making this one historical too. Although NASA is in-progress of building a much heavier rocket called SLS (Space Launch System) which is expected to be completed only by 2020, SpaceX’s FH will still stand out due to less cost and reusable capability. What makes this so special? As already mentioned its of the powerful operational rocket to have ever built with less cost. It has…
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Earthworms bred in Mars soil simulant!
Wieger Wamelink, Mars and Moon soil researcher may have just opened doors to grow crops on Martian soil when humans get there. Soil is necessary for agriculture and its one of the basic necessity for life as it provides food. It contains all nutrients by nature on Earth and earthworms only makes the soil healthier – they do break down and recycle dead organic matter. This is how we know the ecosystem works on Earth; however Mars’s soil is more sterile and contains toxic compounds. Wageningen University & Research has been researching and growing rucola on Mars soil simulant which they obtained by NASA. They added worms and manure…
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Elon Musk’s plan on sending people to Mars.
Elon Musk – the man who can bring a SciFi fantasy come true, atleast that’s how I would like to picture him (I know many would agree with me); the CEO and the co-founder of SpaceX. He has great visions about the future one of which is colonizing Mars by 2024 with two ships reaching by 2022 filled with cargo and he plans to do it effective and safe. He recently provided an update to his 2016 presentation regarding his long term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars. In his recent speaking at the International Astronautical…
