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.
The race is on for mining not only precious minerals but also building out a security force to keep our technology, and our place among the stars, safe from the unknown.
The aerospace industry employs a wide number of people. For example, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) hires people from multiple fields, including:
By William Tucker Contributor, In Homeland Security This summer will mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned lunar…
The Cold War was a globe-spanning war of ideas and ideals between the United States and the Soviet Union. Consisting of conflicts on the Korean Peninsula, Southeast Asia and wide-ranging spy operations, perhaps its most dramatic battlefield was set against the backdrop of space.