Petrozavodsk Phenomenon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2020
On September 20, 1977, between midnight and the early hours of the morning, people over a vast region in eastern Europe, stretching from Cop...
Showing posts with the label Space
The Four Inch Flight: The Comical Beginning to Project Mercury
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2020
Like many firsts in spaceflight, Project Mercury began with a failure. The goal of the mission was to put a man in space and bring him safel...
Gallaudet Eleven: The Deaf ‘Astronauts’
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2020
In the late 1950s, when NASA was still a young organization, one of the biggest challenges for them was to determine whether human spaceflig...
Of Mice, Men And Moon: A Short History of Animals in Space
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2020
More animals have flown to space than human beings. In the early years of space flight, all kinds of living beings from rodents to apes were...
The Balloon Satellites of Project Echo
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2020
The world’s first communication satellite was remarkably unsophisticated—a big silvery plastic balloon coated with aluminum, soaring roughly...
The Znamya Space Mirror
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2020
For a few hours just before dawn on the night of 4 February 1993, a giant spotlight, 5 kilometers in diameter, raced across Europe from we...
Project A119: The Secret Plan to Nuke The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2019
Long before the United States President John F. Kennedy delivered the inspiring "We choose to go to the Moon" speech in front of a...
Luna 15: The Soviet Probe That Tried to Gatecrash America’s First Moon Landing
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2019
Two hours before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were scheduled to leave the surface of the moon after their historic moonwalk, an unmanned ...
Sergei Krikalev: The Man Who Went Up a Soviet And Came Down a Russian
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 25, 2019
Late in the spring of 1991, Soviet cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Anatoli Artsebarski, along with Britain's first astronaut, Helen Shar...
Halton Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2019
Less than one hundred years ago, astronomers were not even sure whether our galaxy made up the entire universe or there were more Milky Wa...
James Nasmyth’s Fake Lunar Photographs From 1874
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2018
In 1874, an astronomer and an inventor together published one of the most influential books of the time on lunar geology, titled The Moon: C...
The Mail That Was Smuggled to The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2018
A lot of objects flew to the moon and back aboard NASA’s Saturn rocket. During the Apollo missions and those before that, astronauts were al...
Poles of Beauty
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2017
An image recently published by one of my favorite blogs, Astronomy Picture of the Day, made me realize that our planet earth posses perhaps...
Project West Ford: Earth’s Artificial Ring
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2017
In the summer of 1963, the United States successfully put a gigantic ring around the earth. But unlike Saturn, earth’s ring was not made of ...
Point Nemo: The Spacecraft Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 13, 2017
Far off the east coast of New Zealand, about 3,300 kilometers out in the Pacific Ocean, lies one of the geekiest junkyard in the world. It’s...
The Astronaut Beach House
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2016
Before astronauts get suited up and launched into space, they spends their final days relaxing with their wives and kids in a private beach ...
Campo Del Cielo Meteorite Field
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2016
About 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, a huge chunk of space rock fell in Argentina, but it didn’t fell in one piece. It broke up as it entered the...
Monument to The Conquerors of Space
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2016
In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the United States in the space race. They launched the first artificial satellite of e...
NASA’s Exoplanet Travel Posters Dream of Out of The World Vacations
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2015
While interstellar travel is yet to become a reality, NASA seeks to keep our hopes and dreams alive by releasing three gorgeous, print-quali...
Soviet Russia’s Secret Failed Moon Program
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2011
After the United States beat the Russian’s in the race to the moon in the late 70s of the last century, the Soviet lunar program was covered...
