There was a feeling that if we live to see the start of a manned mission to Mars, it will not become the same sensation as the launch of the first satellite
It is believed that amateur astronomy emerged at the end of the 19th century, when Camille Flammarion founded the French Astronomical Society in 1887, and a year later the Nizhny Novgorod circle of physics and astronomy lovers appeared. However, if we take a closer look at the historical perspective, it turns out that professional astronomy
Back in the 1960s, Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov from the USSR Academy of Sciences put forward a hypothesis that, in reality, our satellite was created by artificial means. This hypothesis has eight main postulates, popularly called "riddles"
In 2020, Chinese scientists plan to "hang" an alternative moon over the city of Chengdu
Each nation individually and all mankind as a whole strives only forward to conquer new horizons in the field of economic development, medicine, sports, science, new technologies, including the study of astronomy and the conquest of space. We hear about big breakthroughs in the field of astronautics, but were they really? Did the Americans land on the moon, or was it one big show?
I am in awe of many of NASA's accomplishments. I admire the courage, dedication and sacrifice made by astronauts who died as they reached the new frontier, proclaimed by President John F. Kennedy in 1960, when he promised to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade
The foundation of the special and general theory of relativity consists of only two postulates. "The universe is homogeneous" and "the speed of light is constant." But, before moving on to the postulates themselves, let's turn to history
On the day of cosmonautics, it will not be superfluous to recall the officially unrecognized evidence of the cosmic past of Mankind. Compared to them, our "conquest" of the Cosmos is more like playing in a sandbox
"They think they know what happened on this planet many thousands of years ago, but in fact they have no idea even what happened in the recent past, for several hundred revolutions of their planet around the system star."
Good reason for a Saturday movie show. Post-apocalyptic films come out very often, it seems that Hollywood has already put an end to the future of humanity and now only wonders what will cause the death of billions of people. Does it depend on us what the Earth of the Future will be like?
The film tells about the International Space Station. For the first time, viewers will see "from the inside" how cosmonauts prepare for a flight, what they feel when launching into orbit, how they live and work on the ISS. Most of the film was filmed by the "Orbital inhabitants"
Even if we do not take into account the opinion that the world behind the scenes regularly announces certain signs and information through the Wachowski Brothers, the film will be interesting for many thinking people. What lies behind a banal love story, silly dialogues and redundant special effects?
In the last century, during the Cold War and the technological race, the USSR ushered in the space age. The country managed to achieve colossal success in space exploration, despite the fact that it continued to restore the national economy destroyed by the war
"Snob" begins to publish a series of materials devoted to the study of the current situation in Russia in the space industry. In the first part: how to successfully sink your own spacecraft, how are preparations for launching a rocket from Baikonur going, what were the largest accidents of Russian missiles and what caused them
The basis of the functioning of the Universe is the Spiritual Man, who came from the higher Multidimensional Spiritual spheres of the Universe, and by his activity, in the gross material world, ensures the desire of matter for self-improvement, and movement along the path of Spiritual development
The purpose of this video article is to collect all the available information known to modern science and the past of civilization in order to draw conclusions whether there were conditions for life on the surface of the Moon, and in what forms life on the Moon can exist, and in our time
In the midst of the Cold War, when people were just starting to launch their first spacecraft, the two superpowers - the USA and the USSR - had one truly crazy idea. We are talking about the detonation of a nuclear charge on the lunar surface. But what was it for?
Continuation of Dmitry Mylnikov's article. In this part, the author argues in favor of the idea of self-organization of matter not on a protein basis and substantiates his view of the stars as giant plasma intelligent organisms
In his new article, Dmitry Mylnikov discusses things that rarely occur to people of modern civilization, who almost never raise their eyes to the stars. What do we ignore when looking for traces of a former highly developed civilization on our planet?
Moderator of the session at the US Center for Strategic and International Studies
Those who in 1986 watched the disaster of the American shuttle Challenger with 7 astronauts on board on television, probably remember these footage very well, which made the whole world freeze in horror. In those years, no one could even imagine that such a catastrophe could be just a well-choreographed show
In a recent interview with The Observer, the first British astronaut Helen Sharman said that she not only believes in the existence of aliens, but also believes that they can live unnoticed among us here on Earth
Mass is one of the fundamental and at the same time mysterious concepts in science. In the world of elementary particles, it cannot be separated from energy. It is nonzero even for neutrinos, and most of it is located in the invisible part of the Universe. RIA Novosti tells what physicists know about mass and what secrets are associated with it
Despite the continuous improvement of technologies and progress in the study and exploration of space, it still remains something unknown and incomprehensible for mankind
Sci-fi films show how spaceships fly to planets through an asteroid field, they deftly evade large planetoids and even more deftly shoot back from small asteroids. A natural question arises: "If space is three-dimensional, isn't it easier to fly around a dangerous obstacle from above or below?"
In this article, we will analyze the "scientific" note by Alexei Kachalin entitled "Scientists first tracked the heating and cooling of matter around a black hole" posted on the largest Russian media portal TASS. On March 2, 2017, this correspondent reported that American and European scientists were able to see the rapid heating and cooling of some matter around the Black Hole
Now I will try to show why we cannot go and buy an Earth-Moon ticket at the price of a Moscow-Peter ticket, how the elevator will help us and what it will hold onto so as not to fall to the ground
It is believed that technologies always develop gradually, from simple to complex, from stone knife to steel - and only then to a programmed milling machine. However, the fate of space rocketry turned out to be not so straightforward. The creation of simple, reliable single-stage missiles for a long time remained inaccessible to designers
Every living thing on our planet is born, matures, gets older and eventually dies. All these laws also apply outside the Earth - stars, solar systems and galaxies also perish over time
Our planet is unique. Just as each of us is different from the stone statues of the Roman gods, the Earth is different from Mars, Venus and other known planets. Let's tell the story of one of, perhaps, the most amazing and controversial hypotheses of our time - the Gaia hypothesis, which invites us to look at the Earth as a living organism
In the Chinese science fiction film Wandering Earth, released by Netflix, mankind, using huge engines installed around the planet, attempts to change the Earth's orbit to avoid its destruction by the dying and expanding Sun, as well as to prevent a collision with Jupiter … Such a scenario of a cosmic apocalypse may one day actually happen
As you know, the Soviet Union did not manage to get ahead of America on the Moon. H-1 - Soviet answer to Saturn-V - the rocket that our lunar hopes were pinned on, tried to take off four times and exploded four times shortly after launch. Not wanting to spend millions and billions of rubles on an already lost race, in the mid-1970s the Soviet government forced the designers to forget about the Moon
The main question ever asked by humanity is: "Why are we here?" - this is the desire to understand the reason for the emergence of man as a species. You can turn to religion and theology, to physics and biology, to history and conspiracy theories, but this question was unanswered, so it remained without this answer. Although, there are several hypotheses here
Almost every Soviet article on the colonization of space mentions the inventor, philosopher and founder of cosmonautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Tsiolkovsky saw a solution to the future problem of overpopulation and resource scarcity through the development of new planets. It was he who first wrote about future "etheric settlements" in Earth's orbit, made sketches of extraplanetary stations and came up with the idea of a space elevator
Renowned New Zealand molecular biologist David Penny
Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut who performed the first manned space walk, a member of two space expeditions: Voskhod-2 and Soyuz-19
The FSB wants to ban Russia from participating in the global satellite Internet project OneWeb. Roscosmos is against - it counts on billion-dollar contracts
Looking at images of Mars, we see a dusty, dry, cold and lifeless planet. However, modern science claims that in the distant past the Red Planet had a powerful magnetic field, a dense atmosphere, and on the surface there were rivers, deep lakes and the World Ocean
It seems that very serious events are taking place on Mars, the echoes of which are sometimes recorded by astronomers. But this information is immediately diligently hiding from people, apparently so that there are not "many sorrows" from "many knowledge"
The official birthday of the Baikonur cosmodrome is considered June 2, 1955, when the organizational and staff structure of the Fifth Research Test Site was approved by the General Staff's directive and its headquarters - military unit 11284 - was created. Colonel Georgy Shubnikov, an outstanding military engineer, was appointed head of construction. Today, the once top secret facility is thus celebrating its 65th anniversary. Izvestia recalls its history