SPACE ZILLA

Year 2018 was a productive and successful year for Spaceflight and Space Exploration and here are some achievement which open door for human civilization on mars. Here are some of Top Space Stories of 2018 and spaceflight activities. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launch   The  Falcon Heavy launched on Feb. 6, 2018  and quickly unveiled a treat to those watching the livestream: the primary payload was a dummy called "Starman," riding in a Tesla X roadster (an homage to one of SpaceX founder Elon Musk's other companies).   The upper stage of the rocket fired the car and passenger out into deep space, toward the orbit of Mars. To say the launch went viral doesn't begin to describe the magnitude of social-media excitement that day. NASA's InSight Mars Landing  InSight, the first American spacecraft to land on the red planet since the Curiosity rover in 2012, touched down safely on Nov. 26, an event that attracted...

Satellite 'AKARI' detects water in 17 asteroids.  A Japanese  satellite 'Akari' and  research team has detected the existence of water in a number of asteroids, u sing the infrared  light.   Researchers and scientist from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) and the University of Tokyo found that water is retained in asteroids as hydrated minerals, which were produced by chemical reactions of water and anhydrous rocks that occurred inside the asteroid. According to the study - presented in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan - hydrated minerals are stable even above the sublimation temperature of water ice. By looking for hydrated minerals, scientists can investigate whether asteroids contain water.

Apollo 8 Launched 1st Astronauts Around the Moon 50 Years Ago

Apollo 8 Launched 1st Astronauts Around the Moon 50 Years Ago.  On December 21, 1968, astronauts  Frank Borman, William Anders, and  James Lovell  left the Kennedy Space Center to fly around the moon. They spent 20 hours in lunar orbit, then returned home after more than six days in space. The Apollo 8 mission was a critical step toward achieving President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon.  Nine other lunar missions followed Apollo 8, bringing a dozen men to the moon and gathering hundreds of pounds of rock and soil samples for analysis.

Virgin Galactic tourism rocket ship test flight reaches edge of space.   Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high above California's Mojave Desert on Thursday, reaching for the first time what the company considers the boundary of space.   "People have literally put their lives on the line to get us here," Branson said. "This day is as much for them as it is for all of us."