NASA becomes operational (1958) ; Luna 3 photographs the far side of the Moon (1959) : the Parker solar probe approaches the Sun (2018)

This Month . . . Intentional crashed landings. Things that go bump in the night! Sometimes it helps astronomers and space engineers to...

Monty has been observing regularly but over the past few months his reports have not been happy ones because the Sun has not been very...

4 July 1054 Chinese astronomers notice a star explode becoming a supernova in the constellation Taurus. It remained visible in the night...

2 June 1966 Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor robotic spacecraft, soft lands on the Moon. It was the first American spacecraft to...

EVENTS 31st October 1992 Pope John Paul II pardons Galileo for his views. The Catholic church condemned Galileo in 1633 for his...

26th September 1905 Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity is published. It is the generally accepted and experimentally confirmed...

This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon with a few little known facts of the Apollo missions. Where...

5th July 1687 The book Principia is published by Sir Isaac Newton. Written in Latin with the title Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia...

15th April 1970 Humans travel the furthest in space when the Apollo 13 crew reach 400,171 km from Earth in an attempt to return to Earth...