Fifty-three years ago today, the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom opened a treaty for signatures that would be nicknamed the “Outer Space Treaty.” The signers included nations from Europe, Asia, South America, North America, Africa and Australia.
For the better part of six decades, our imaginations have been tempered by science fiction as to what a space force uniform should look like.
In case you have been living under a rock for the past 50 years, Buzz Aldrin is an American engineer, former astronaut and fighter pilot, but is perhaps best known as the lunar module pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. He and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the moon.
Tomorrow, Elon Musk’s space logistics company SpaceX is scheduled to perform one of the final tests of its Crew Dragon capsule for manned missions to and from low-Earth orbit.
This week in 1972, NASA launched the Earth Resources Technology Satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was later renamed Landsat 1.
This week in 1905, Charles Dillon Perrine discovered a new moon of Jupiter, later named Elara (from Greek mythology, the mother of the giant Tityus and fathered by Zeus).
NASA astronaut Christina Koch is the new record holder for the single longest space mission by a woman, besting NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson.
This week in 1961, French President Charles de Gaulle established the Centre national d’études spatiales, or the National Center for Space Studies (CNES).