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Shuttle vs. Soyuz

April 9, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Here’s an interesting illustration showing the size comparison of a Space Shuttle to a Soyuz vehicle, shared on Twitter by NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio (@AstroRM). Amazing to think that three flight-suited astronauts are able to fit inside a Soyuz and have life [...]

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Images of Rockets

September 22, 2010

Here are some amazing images of rockets. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. This is an amazing picture of the space shuttle Discovery as it prepares for lift-off at the NASA Kennedy Space Center’s [...]

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Spacecraft

September 14, 2010

When a vehicle or robot is designed to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and travel through space, we call that a spacecraft. There are many different kinds of spacecraft, such as satellites orbiting the Earth, robots sent to other planets, orbiting space stations, and vehicles sent to the Moon carrying human astronauts. The harsh environment of [...]

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Black Hole Drive Could Power Future Starships

November 19, 2009

What would happen if humans could deliberately create a blackhole? Well, for starters we might just unlock the ultimate energy source to create the ultimate spacecraft engine — a potential  “black hole-drive” –  to propel ships to the stars. It turns out black holes are not black at all; they give off “Hawking radiation” that [...]

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