Things Worth Noting
Lunokhod 1, the Soviet Union’s groundbreaking robotic lunar rover, became the first vehicle to operate on another celestial body when it landed via Luna 17 in Mare Imbrium on November 17, 1970—exactly 55 years ago today. This eight-wheeled, bathtub-shaped rover, designed by Alexander Kemurdzhian and built by Lavochkin, weighed 840 kg and featured a solar-charged […]
Carl Sagan, a renowned astronomer and science communicator, transformed our understanding of the universe. Born in 1934, he studied Venus’s greenhouse effect and contributed to NASA’s Viking and Voyager missions, including the Voyager Golden Record. A SETI advocate, he co-developed the Drake Equation to estimate alien civilizations. His TV series Cosmos and books like Pale […]