On July 17, 1984, during her second space mission, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya of the Soviet Union became the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
For those old enough to remember watching the first moon landing live on an old black and white TV in 1969 and wishing you could see the historic show in color, your wish has now come true. And, believe me, the 50-year wait for “Apollo 11” was worth it.
The U.S. manned space program took another “one small step for man” over the weekend with the successful commercial launch and docking of an unmanned spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
By the early 1980s, heightened Cold War paranoia led many military leaders in the United States and the Soviet Union to question the survivability of stationary nuclear missile silos in the event of a full-scale nuclear exchange.
In my online courses in logistics, transportation, supply chains and reverse logistics, we often discuss common modes of transportation. All of them are concerned with how products move along, whether in a box, a bag, a crate, a barrel or a shipping container.
The Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) recently made headlines by successfully landing a lunar module on the dark side of the moon. Chang’e 4 is part of an ongoing Chinese scientific expedition to the moon; it uses lunar rovers to measure surface temperatures and collect rock samples.
The effects of the Cold War are still being felt in some international activities today. The U.S.-Soviet Union competition affected how all countries interacted in the international arena.
When the space age began, the opportunities to access space were limited to only a few nations and there were limited consequences for bad behavior. The special nature of space as a sphere of civilian and military activity continues to draw increasing interest as more countries develop and enhance their space programs.