LRO stands for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. It is a robotic spacecraft that is orbiting, or flying around, the moon. It is taking pictures and gathering information about the moon’s surface. LRO has six different science instruments, including telescopes, sensors, lasers and detectors. These instruments will gather more information about the moon then we would had…

The Saturn V was a rocket NASA built to send people to the moon. The Saturn V was a type of rocket called a Heavy Lift Vehicle. This means it was very powerful. The Saturn V was the most powerful rocket that had ever flown successfully. The Saturn V was used in the Apollo program…

The Soyuz is a Russian spacecraft. Astronauts and cosmonauts travel to the International Space Station on the Soyuz. The Soyuz launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It is located in Kazakhstan, a country on Russia’s southern border. The Soyuz transports crews to the International Space Station and returns them to Earth after their missions.The crew rides…

Before we start, we have a new member! His name is Raj and he originally wrote this post. Thanks. The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live. The space station also serves as a unique science lavatory. The first…

Orion is a new NASA spacecraft for astronauts. The spacecraft will play an important part in NASA’s journey to Mars. Orion will carry astronauts farther into the solar system than ever before. Orion will carry astronauts into Outer Space and then return them to the Earth. Orion will be able to go to astroids or…

The Heavy Lift Launch System or I will call the HLLS, is a special rocket which has a job to carry payloads of any size. As everyone may know, rockets are different from one another. Also, HLL’s are the most powerful rockets. For example, the Saturn V rocket which carried men to the moon. Weighing…

The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope around Earth’s orbit. On April 24, 1990, it was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery. It orbits around 340 miles from Earths surface. It is 40 ft long and weighs about 2 elephants. Fun Fact: Hubble travels Earth about 5 miles per second and is solar powered Hubble…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be the first object to “touch” the Sun. The probe was launched on August 12, 2018 on the Delta IV. Because the probe will be going so close to the star (approximately 3.8 million miles from the corona), it will need a very strong heat shield. The heat shield is…

What is a black hole? Most people aren’t too familiar with what black holes really are. Black holes are a region(s) of space that have a gravitational field that is so intense that no radiation can escape. A black hole has a stronger gravitational pull than anything else in our universe. It’s something like a…

The rocket propulsion system is all the parts making up the rocket engine. That includes the pumps, rocket nozzle, fuel, oxidizer, propellants and many more things. The propulsion system is what gives the rocket thrust. Thrust is the force of the rocket to move. Learn more about how a rocket works here.