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Historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the space program, when Cold War fears ruled and no one knew if John Glenn would survive America's first orbital flight. Originally broadcast June 2021.
From the debut of new launch vehicles to missions to the moon, ars, asteroids and much more, a lot of exciting missions are expected to launch or arrive at their destination in 2022.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield discusses his first foray into fiction with "The Apollo Murders."
Shchit-2 was a Soviet-era missile created to protect the Almaz military space stations from foreign threats. An example of the missile is currently displayed in a restricted area at NPO Mashinostroyenia, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, Russia, alongside an earlier version - called the Shchit-1. The Shchit-1 featured a 23mm cannon and is the only gun to ever be fired in space, reported The Drive, as far as public information suggests. The Almaz programme was a hidden effort by the Soviets to weaponise their space station - which was just a civilian endeavour as far as the rest of the w...
These are the space missions to watch in 2021 Space 31/12/2020 Elizabeth Howell © Provided by Space An artist's depiction of NASA's Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, storing samples of Martian rocks in tubes for a later rover to fetch and carry to Earth. While 2020 was a challenging year for the space industry (and everyone else) amid the coronavirus pandemic, a bunch of exciting missions that will launch or arrive at their destination in 2021 continued to move forward. From Mars to asteroids, robots, humans and much more, we'll see space exploration continue to expand acr...