A satellite put into orbit around the moon will stay there, right? Nope! Most lunar orbits aren’t stable enough for a satellite to stay in orbit. Why is that? The answer is something called Lunar Mascons. Mascons are “mass concentrations”. It’s a region of the moon’s crust that contains a different concentration of mass than […]
Skylab
The Space Race wasn’t just about who could get to the moon first. There were other battlefields where the space race was fought. One of those battlefields was in building a permanent manned presence in space in the form of a space station in low earth orbit. Such a station would not only be a […]