Space exploration

For the die-hard fans of the Batman movie franchise the unveiling by NASA of their new vehicle at the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex should be a thing of beauty. The vehicle, which was designed to scour the surface of Mars, looks exactly like the Batmobile.

A group of students from Istanbul Technical University (İTU) are set to attend the finals of a competition in the U.S. with a Mars rover they have built, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on May 29. 
The "İTU Rover Team" group will participate in the University Rover Challenge (URC) in the U.S. state of Utah between June 1 and 3. 

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is currently conducting a series of elaborate dives in which it repeatedly comes closer to Saturn than ever before. But during its slower periods, NASA is still using the craft’s fantastic photography equipment to grab images of Saturn’s nearby bodies, such as the moon Titan.

According to an announcement made by the Greek government, the country will have its own Space Agency. The objective, of course, is not to start any independent…space exploration program.

Gene Cerman died at the age of 82. He was in NASA’s 1972 Apollo 17 mission to the Moon and was the last astronaut that walked on its surface.

On that day up there he had said that ”we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind”.

Of the twelve people that walked on the Moon only six are still alive.

CIRSD think-tank president Vuk Jeremic on Monday told the N1 broadcaster he was "intensively thinking about and considering" running for president next year.

Jeremic said the job is "of exceptional importance, especially at a time of turmoil in the world."

Things are looking somewhat bleak for humanity.  At least in terms of survival.  According to the world’s foremost theoretical scientist and astronomer Stephen Hawking, we’re doomed unless we can ditch Mother Earth in the next 1,000 or so years and find another planet to colonize.  As would be expected, pollution, climate change and nukes are the main culprits.

After Europe terminates its Rosetta mission, the world's first-ever orbit and landing on a comet zipping through space, what can we look forward to next in the exploration of faraway frontiers?  

An expedition to space is not a dream anymore four lucky Turks, shortlisted for the "pure space experience" trip organized by the SCX company.

At least 700 photographs from NASA’s “golden era” in space exploration  are being sold by Bloomsbury Auctions in London. This includes the first “selfie” taken in space, as well as a rare image of the first astronaut to ever set foot on the Moon: Neil Armstrong.