Even before Michael Jackson, Neil Armstrong showed us how to walk on the Moon. He was the first and watching that blurry image on my parent’s black and white television on July 20, 1969 is something I will never forget. I was a 20-year old, hurrying back from my parents cottage

Why will humans land on the Moon in the 21st century? Will we create permanent habitations there? What are the benefits? How many of us will become lunar citizens? The Apollo Program developed technology to send two humans to the surface of the Moon for short stays. The technology inc

Outer space is hard.  Outer space is expensive. Outer space is risky. So why are companies lining up to go there? The “Space Race” of the 20th century wasn’t about profit. It was a war for ideological dominance. The United States versus the Soviet Union, Capitalism v

The Space Race driven by ideology, economics, nationalism, and the military fuelled the technological advancements in rocketry,  robot spacecraft and human presence beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The ground shifted, however, with the end of the Soviet Union as a rival to the United

From the ashes of Germany’s Second World War V-rocket program, the United States and Soviet Union developed space programs of their own. They did this by bringing the German scientists from Peenemunde to their respective countries along with the factories and remaining rocket in

The Space Race was both ideological and technical. Which of the two nations, the United States or the Soviet Union had the means to solve the technical challenges posed by President Kennedy’s goal to send humans to the Moon and return them to Earth before 1970? We are more famil