Mission Cup 2021: New Horizons

This blog post was written by Stephen Edwards who nominated New Horizons for Mission Cup 2021. New Horizons is a NASA interplanetary space probe mission to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and its large moon Charon. Launch was in 2006, … Continue reading →

Mission Cup 2021: Venera 9- The First Mission to Land on Another Planet

This post was written by Jamie Gilmour who nominated Venera 9 for Mission Cup 2021. I grew up reading science fiction stories that were written before the beginning of the space age.  Authors like Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov imagined that … Continue reading →

Mission Cup 2021 Semi Finalist: OSIRIS-REx – TAG You’re It

The Mission: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched on the 8th of September 2016, with its target being the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. It’s the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission and is due to return to Earth in 2023 with primitive asteroid … Continue reading →

Mission Cup 2021 Semi-Finalist: Cassini Huygens – an amazing voyage to the outer solar system

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This post was written by Brendan Mccormick Kilbride, who nominated Cassini Huygens for Mission Cup 2021. ——————– The Cassini-Huygens mission was a collaboration by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency to study Saturn, its moons and … Continue reading →

A pit stop geological tour of the West Coast of America!

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This summer, Sam, Ben, Brad (Ben’s brother) and I decided to go on a road trip around the West Coast of America after Sam and Ben had finished taking part in the Exploration Science Summer Intern Program at the Lunar … Continue reading →