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On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER spacecraft on a historic first mission to orbit the planet Mercury. The spacecraft’s name stands for the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging mission. It blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:15 a.m. Eastern Time and spent the next six and […]

Namibia’s Cabinet has approved the drafting of a Space Science and Technology Bill, paving the way for a legal framework to guide the country’s activities in the space sector. Announced by the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Emma Theofelus, the bill is intended to align national efforts in space science and technology with broader

On Aug. 1, 1968, NASA canceled the production of its Saturn V moon rocket. The giant rocket was the only launch vehicle to have ever carried astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, and it was the largest, most powerful rocket ever. 10 surprising facts about NASA’s mighty Saturn V moon rocket NASA built 15 of these rockets

In a landmark moment for African space based agricultural research, egusi melon seeds sourced from Oyo State, Nigeria, have been sent into space as part of the global Earth Seeds for Space Initiative. The project is spearheaded by Dr Temidayo Oniosun, a Nigerian space scientist and Managing Director of Space in Africa. In collaboration with

Space42, Esri, and Microsoft have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to institute the Map Africa Initiative, a five-year collaborative programme aimed at developing accurate and accessible base maps for all 54 African countries. The effort seeks to enhance local mapping infrastructure and provide geospatial support for economic development, disaster resilience, and technological innovation, ultimately

On July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts drove on the moon for the first time. David Scott, the commander of Apollo 15, and James Irwin, the lunar module pilot explored the moon for three days by driving around in the lunar roving vehicle. Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden remained in orbit around the

On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet Saturn. Shortly after the telescope was invented in 1608, Galileo peered out into the solar system and saw the amazing ring system. At first he didn’t actually think they were rings. Instead, Galileo thought Saturn might have

On July 29, 1982, the Salyut 6 space station fell out of space and safely burned up in Earth’s atmosphere along the way. Salyut 6 was the eighth space station the Soviet Union had built for its Salyut program. It spent almost five years in orbit and supported five different crewed cosmonaut missions. While aboard

On July 28, 1851, the first ever photo of a total solar eclipse was recorded by a Prussian daguerreotypist named Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski. Daguerreotypy is an old photographic process that uses silver-plated copper treated with chemical fumes that make it light-sensitive. Previous attempts to take photos of solar eclipses failed to show the contrast

On July 26, 2005, the space shuttle Discovery launched on the first return-to-flight mission following the Columbia disaster that killed seven crewmembers a little over two years earlier. A few seconds after launching from Kennedy Space Center, a huge bird flew straight into the top of the shuttle’s external fuel tank. The bird didn’t cause