Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts

Monday, January 6, 2020

Fighting Slavery From Space



101 East shows how space technology is helping uncover modern slavery and free bonded workers.


Stretching across India, Pakistan, Nepal, China and Bangladesh, the "brick belt" is a vast area containing hundreds of thousands of kilns that produce countless bricks.
But behind the walls of many of these kilns are slaves - men, women and children forced to work against their will, with no pay and no way out.
They work under the threat of violence, in hot and dusty conditions. If they try to escape, their employers often claim they have debts to repay, forcing them to return.
Chandravati and her four children aged between nine and 20 work at a brick kiln every day. Her children sometimes work at night so they can attend school.
"The owner abuses us, the contractor also abuses us. He says that he doesn't have money. We are all hungry, our kids are hungry!" she says.



Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Are we close to commercial space travel?



The first commercial capsule capable of carrying humans has docked with the International Space Station


Science fiction has always said that space is the next frontier. And that is gradually becoming a reality.
Private companies are taking small steps towards enabling people to travel more often to space and live longer away from Earth.
On Saturday, SpaceX, the firm owned by billionaire Elon Musk, made history with the launch of its Dragon spacecraft.

.

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Putting Man on the Moon




Al Jazeera's Caroline Radnofsky explores the legacy of her grandfather, the man behind the iconic Apollo 11 space suits.



Sixty years after the Wright Brothers put man in the air, scientists and engineers were grappling with the next major challenge: putting a man in space - and keeping him alive there.

As an engineering challenge, it was the most extreme imaginable. Their solution was a rocket and the most complicated piece of personal protection equipment man has ever known: the space suit.
The design challenge was handed to a small team inside NASA - Crew Systems. The leader of their team was Matthew Radnofsky, known as "the Mad Russian" - an eccentric second-generation Jewish immigrant with a can-do attitude and a broad Boston accent. He was also Caroline Radnofsky's grandfather.

Translate