22 Amazing Stargazing Hotels Around the World
When it comes to stargazing destinations, we all know there are some incredible ones across the globe. Most of us spend our time stargazing near home but occasionally want to travel further afield – and what better way to combine the joy of travel with the wonder of the night sky than by booking a stay at a hotel that's known for stargazing?...
33 Space Tourism Bucket List Experiences You Must Do
If you love space and want to keep exploring the world, let my space tourism bucket list give you a whole new set of experiences to seek out. From rocket launches to visiting space, there's inspiration here for a life of adventure.
The 6 Best Russian Space Museums for Soviet Aerospace History
It’s impossible to understate the contribution Russia has made to the field of space exploration. This is especially true when it comes to human space exploration. Russians launched the first satellite, put the first man in space, put the first man in orbit. They executed the first successful spacewalk. Russia also launched the first woman to space, decades before any other country. Their progress in the Space Race propelled the U.S. to the moon 50 years ago. Today, Russian Soyuz rockets carry astronauts from around the world to the International Space Station. If you want to learn about Russian aerospace history, don’t go to Wikipedia. There’s no better place to…
How to Visit Johnson Space Center & Space Center Houston
“Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” Most people recognize this line from the movie Apollo 13. When Astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) calls down to earth to report a major problem with the mission, his famous line was etched in our collective memory. (It’s often erroneously quoted as “Houston, we have a problem.” Verb tenses matter, people!) It wasn’t some person he was calling back to, or a code name or acronym come up with by the U.S. government. ‘Houston’ was Houston, Texas, and the men (and very few women) who at the time were running NASA operations there. Houston’s ties to NASA and the space industry date back to the 1960s, with…
