Recent content by Richard Popovich

The Perseverance Helicopter is just the start for new vehicles to explore Mars and other planets. Astronauts and future visitors; and even permanent future inhabitants; of the Planet Mars; will need a new class of vehicle to safely explore the planet, in a shorter period of time. What the...

"Can We?" Maybe someday far in the future,. With our current technology we need to concentrate on unmanned vehicles to explore the outer reaches of the Solar System. A future fourteen month round trip to Mars only in its planning stages. Let the landers take their chances with Pluto.

Anything is possible, however a survivable landing is highly unlikely. In addition to a good landing, morality dictates having the ability to build an infrastructure to house the Astronauts after the landing. And then there is the task of returning the people home. A successful human landing...

It is also evident that not every object which re-enters the Earth's atmosphere is completely destroyed. There are accounts of space junk hitting cars, homes and people. It is rare, but it has happened. The larger the object is and the greater the mass, means some of the stuff we place into...

It seems to me when "Space Garbage" is discarded to orbit, it's not all that different from the "Middle Ages" when people threw out the contents of their chamber pots into the streets. Every act of blindly tossing unwanted things into an environment, has consequences not recognized, when an...

If there is a Black Hole out there on a course to swollow our Solar System, we don't have to worry about it. If one was near us we would feel its' effects on us long before it gobbles us up.