Apollo 11 effectively proved US victory in the Space Race to demonstrate spaceflight superiority, by fulfilling a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, “before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” Was Apollo 12 aRead More →
The high power levels of Shuttle and its need to return to an aerodynamic configuration would have necessitated a very large array that would need to be deployed and retracted each mission. When did NASA first use solar panels? The first spacecraft to use solar panels was the Vanguard 1Read More →
‘Pretty’ Ricky Conlon is played by real-life Liverpool boxer ‘Tony Bellew‘. In the film, ‘Pretty’ Ricky Conlan is the WBC Light Heavyweight Champion. In the film, he puts his title on the line against Adonis Creed. … It marked the first outdoor boxing match in Liverpool since 1949. Who isRead More →
Phaethon was the son the god Helios who secretly took the chariot one day to drive it. However, as he was young and inexperienced, he lost control of the horses and got killed. Which God has a chariot? Helios, (Greek: “Sun”) in Greek religion, the sun god, sometimes called aRead More →