How Old Is Space
Twenty four successful shuttle launches fulfilled many scientific and military requirements until jan.
How old is space. For example spacex launches from. Space stations marked the next phase of space exploration. Without the old space knowledge gained over 50 years new space could not exist.
This was followed by nasa s skylab space station the first orbital laboratory in which astronauts and scientists studied earth and the effects of spaceflight on the human body. 28 1986 when just 73 seconds after liftoff the space shuttle challenger exploded. The first space station in earth orbit was the soviet salyut 1 station which was launched in 1971.
Both of these fall within the lower limit of 11 billion years independently derived from the globular clusters and both. The same is true for all the infrastructure that new space takes advantage of.