The first frontier

Using original photographs from the golden era of space travel, a new book unveils NASA’s thrilling first spaceflights

‘The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space,’ wrote the American astronomer and author Carl Sagan in his book, Contact. Ever since humans first huddled

For Sarah, it was a night that would go down in history – for more reasons than one

Your dusty, distant destination awaits, with unique geology that reveals billions of years of cosmic collisions

HOW THE ASTRONAUT PUSHES ONE NASA ROCKETEER TO PSYCHOLOGICAL EXTREMES

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports