Over the past couple of years, SpaceX has captured everyone’s attention with their reusable space-vehicles, which allows an affordable access to space. Europe is now developing its first reusable spacecraft, called the Space RIDER. The Space RIDER (Space Reusable Integrated Demonstrator for Europe Return) is a project led by the Italian Space Agency (ASI, Agenzia…
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Hybrid airships, the low carbon alternative
Not only airplanes are looking to reduce their carbon emissions, but the current environmental situation has also pushed engineers to look for other green alternatives for air-transport. One of these new developments are Hybrid Airships their shape can easily be confused with a Zeppelin (as the Hindenburg). Hybrid Airships refer to any type of airships…
How to spend the holidays in Space
Being away from home for the holidays may be difficult but imagine being in space for the holidays! How do astronauts celebrate in the International Space Station? Let’s find out. The first time a group of astronauts celebrated the holidays on space was not in the ISS but on the Apollo 8 in 1968. The…