Galaxy: Technology, Discoveries, Achievements

Comets and Asteroids are the rubble left over from the formation of the Solar System. Their huge, highly elliptical orbits can easily be perturbed.

Since the earliest days of planetary exploration our neighbouring planet Mars has had scientists wondering if it may once have fostered life.

When the US Space Shuttle was withdrawn from service America relied upon the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to deliver its astronauts to the International Space Station.

The Apollo program was said to have made America the winner of the Space Race but since the last moon landing in 1972 no human has set foot upon the lunar surface.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the most sophisticated observatory that humanity has built.

A rocket uses brute force to lift a satellite through the atmosphere yet it must be controlled with exquisite accuracy to deliver its payload to its precise position at the exact time so that it can function as desired from a unique orbit.