When the Saturn V first launched in 1967, it was the largest and most powerful rocket ever made. But a rocket designed years before the Saturn V would have shattered the scale of rocket design. Primal Space looks at the enormous rocket developed in the 1960s known as the Sea Dragon, its interesting design and why it was ultimately never built.
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In the last 30 years, the Hubble Telescope has taken millions of incredible photos of distant stars and galaxies. But Hubble’s best images have come and gone, and the world’s most famous telescope will sadly come to an end in the not-to-distant future. This episode of Primal Space looks at how Hubble managed to capture an image of the most distant galaxy in the known universe, located 32 billion light-years away.
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In September 1977, the Voyager I space probe was launched by NASA to study the outer solar system. And after 42 years, five months and 28 days, as of today, the spacecraft still communicates with the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and transmit data to Earth. At 13.8 billion miles and still going strong, Voyager I is the most distant man-made object from Earth. The craft completed its primary mission of a flyby of the planet Saturn in November 1980. In 1990, engineers turned off the spacecraft’s camera in order to save energy and today only four of the 11 scientific instruments are still active. So how much longer can Voyager I go on before we lose communication? Find out in this episode of Primal Space.
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