Credit: CSA. The Canadian Space Agency, established in 1989, is responsible for coordinating all government-funded space activities in Canada. Some of the CSA’s more high-profile projects include its robotics, most famously the Canadarm and Canadarm2 that were used during shuttle and space station missions. Additionally, several Canadian astronauts have flown in space. The most recent […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope snapped this shot of Mars on Aug. 26, 2003, when the Red Planet was 34.7 million miles from Earth. The picture was taken just 11 hours before Mars made its closest approach to us in 60,000 years. Credit: NASA/ESA Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2005 on Memorial Day […]
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<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31.5″> Beautiful Day for a Launch Credit: SpaceX A wide-angle look at SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launching the Thaicom 8 satellite on May 27, 2016. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”32″> Falcon 9 Launches Thaicom 8 Satellite, May 27, 2016 Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with the Thaicom 8 communications satellite from Florida’s […]
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