Japan’s H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) has been quite the little workhorse for the International Space Station, delivering some of the most valuable payloads to the floating space lab to date….
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David Klemke
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The Proton series of rockets are one of the longest running in the history of spaceflight. They made their debut back in 1965 when the first of them was used…
David Klemke
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The idea of planets orbiting other stars doesn’t seem like a particularly novel idea today but it’s only recently that we’ve been able to definitively prove that there are planets…
David Klemke
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It was just on a year ago today when China made history by becoming one of the few space faring nations to have a manned presence in space. Sure it…
David Klemke
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Even if you’re not a space nut like myself you’re likely familiar with Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut who’s social media presence has captured the attention of hundreds of thousands…
David Klemke
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Bar our own planet Mars is by far the most studied planet in the solar system. Despite the fact that almost half the missions sent to Mars have ended in…
David Klemke
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You’d be forgiven for thinking that Virgin Galactic had disappeared into a cloud of vapourware. Whilst they had managed to build, fly and drop test SpaceShipTwo over two years ago…
David Klemke
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It’s hard for me to hide my fan boy nature when it comes to private space flight. Whilst all credit must go to Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic for getting…
David Klemke
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I’ll just put this here, a sunset on Mars as seen by the Curiosity rover: I had one of those moments watching this video where I just considered the chain…
David Klemke
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It’s hard to believe that it was only 5 months ago that SpaceX launched its very first Dragon capsule that was part of the Commercial Resupply Services contract they had…