Say WOW

Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

GettyImages-103211858-600×517.jpg

Senator Margaret Chase Smith (1897 – 1995, left) congratulates the SPARS (the US Coast Guard Women’s Reserve) on their upcoming 10th anniversary, November 1952. Accepting on behalf of the SPARS are Lieutenant Commander Beatrice V. Ball (right) and Lieutenant Muriel W. Dubuc (centre). Senator Smith sponsored the original bill for the organisation of the SPARS. (Photo by US Coast Guard/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *