So attention now turns to Elon Musk, Tesla automaker and founder of Space X Corp. He is the third member of the very exclusive billionaires club of space enthusiasts.
British billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson won the first round last week when he and his crew flew his Virgin Galactic spacecraft, the VSS Unity spaceplane, to the edge of space.
Popularity in civilian space travel is increasing as several of the world’s billionaires have an ongoing friendly competition.
A new algorithm has uncovered 372 brand new planet candidates in data from the now-defunct Kepler Space Telescope’s K2 mission.
Perseverance is the first rover to actually land in an ancient Martian river delta, located inside the Jezero crater.
If all goes well, one of the world’s richest men will be blasted into space next month by his own company.
The purpose of the SESA conference is to promote multidisciplinary conversation about issues related to both military and civilian space, at the intersection between science, technology and policy.
In the AMU Space Studies master’s program, classes such as SPST631 Astrophysical Studies teach students about the universe on the grandest scale and what kinds of phenomena are at work in the cosmos.