You must have heard of many “-nauts” like astronaut, cosmonaut, taikonaut (and indian “vyomanaut”?!?). Those are different verbal versions of human in space, mostly in political accent. But I’m sure “Robonaut” going to be omnipresent in vocabulary of any country. So it is sort of first ‘Robonaut’, in official definition the first dexterous humanoid robot in [...]

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade. - John Hartigan, Sin City. 30 years old space shuttle mission has come to an end. It has allowed to write a next chapter in Space exploration in the form of Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEO) which combines departments under Space Operations and [...]

In earlier post we have seen how NASA‘s budget has changed over the time. Well, this is yet another infographic on the same timeline. This one gives detailed view of money sanctioned in nominal as well as percentage of the budget term. At the same time one can see which space mission profited from it. [...]

NASA’s new budget is taking new direction. US government is planning to sort of privatise the space industry. Perhaps its a good move! Space industry can leverage knowledge, competence and efficiency of private industries. In this infographics, one can see how the outlay from federal government has changed over the years. It has perhaps changed [...]

Earlier this month, when US President Barack Obama cancelled NASA‘s Constellation programme — a system of rockets and capsules meant to return astronauts to the Moon — he cleared the field for a host of private companies eager to sell seats aboard their space vehicles. And to back it up, he offered a US$6-billion incentive, [...]