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Bookmark or Share- 15 awe-inspiring space and astronomy discoveries | Royal Observatory1. Your hair collects space dust from comets . Every day, several tonnes of material falls to Earth from space. Some of it is witnessed on arrival, as a bright meteor may result in a meteorite – a fragment of rock and metal crashing into the ground. But a great deal of this cosmic material doesn’t make such a spectacular entrance to our planet.
- The New Space Race | Power & Politics in 21st CenturyWhich nations are involved in the new space race? The USA, China and Russia are the clear front-runners, but the race is very different this time. More than 80 countries now have a presence in space. Some people might be surprised to learn that the United Arab Emirates has sent a probe to Mars, and that Israel has (crash) landed on the Moon.
- Space exploration - Royal Museums GreenwichDiscover the history of the space race - and what the future holds for life outside Earth's orbit... Fifty years on from the Apollo 11 Moon landing, a new 'space race' is underway. Discover more about the biggest space missions in the history of humankind and the key missions scheduled the year ahead.
- Could we live on Mars? Human exploration and the Red PlanetAstronauts on board a Mars space station could use remote-controlled robots, safely operated from orbit, to act as scouts for potential habitat locations. Astronauts on the ISS have already practised the techniques involved in this as part of ESA’s Meteron project (Multi-Purpose End-to-End Robotics Operations Network) .
- Why did we stop going to the Moon? - Royal Museums GreenwichIt was a 12-day mission and broke many records, the longest space walk, the longest lunar landing and the largest lunar samples brought back to Earth. Harrison H. Schmitt was the lunar module pilot, as well as being a geologist. He was joined by Ronald E. Evans as command module pilot and Eugene Cernan as Mission Commander. Space Race timeline
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