Search by tag «Elon Musk» 3 results

• School Students Launching Sputniks Into Space? No Big Deal Today, Says This Educator

  Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft are all the rage right now, but how did the story of reusable space systems actually start? What was the Germans’ plan to conquer the atmosphere in the 1930’s? What’s the secret of the American space successes? Mikhail Lutsky, a graduate of the St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation and educator at the Sirius educational center, delved into rocket science at his lecture on first recoverable spaceships. ITMO.NEWS presents the keynotes of his speech. 

  16.01.2019

• “Will Musk Catch Up With Korolev”: Private Space Industry's Journey to the Stars

  Cosmonautics has always attracted the interest of the public, but now this scientific area creates an especially loud buzz. This is largely due to the popularizing activities of Elon Musk; this South Africa-born innovation entrepreneur is often labeled as the pioneer of private space rocket production. But Russia has its own answer to Elon Musk: the legendary Soviet spacecraft engineer Sergei Korolev. In his lecture at St. Petersburg’s Planetarium 1 quizzically titled as “Will Musk Catch Up With Korolev”, Andrey Emelyanov, a renowned spacecraft test engineer and member of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation, compared the scientific footprints of these two cosmonautics’ towering figures. ITMO.NEWS publishes the highlights of this talk.

  07.08.2018

• Journey to the Red Planet: New and Daring Projects for Mars Travel

  In the recent years, the journey to Mars has been a hot topic among scientists and the general public. Back in the 16th century, new lands were discovered by ships sailing the seas; nowadays, we're talking about exploring new places in the Solar system where humans could settle using a different kind of ship. In this article, we'll be looking at the newest engineering and scientific solutions for man's journey to the Red Planet.

  18.09.2017