Seven Dimensions

You can never predict what it's like to leave your home planet. You look down on the ground and realize that you are not on it. It's breathtaking, it seems unrealistic. It feels like "we're no longer in Kansas, Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore". It's a combination of incredibly magical and incredibly prosaic. You may be too crowded, loud and uncomfortable at all. Space travel, at least available now, is not so spectacular. Although the view is what it takes! Everyone thinks that...

The human desire to create larger and more impressive structures is insatiable. The Egyptian pyramids, the Great Wall of China and Burj Khalifa in Dubai are the tallest structures in the world today (828 meters) - all this is the result of the work of people who squeeze the maximum out of the engineering possibilities of their time. However, high buildings are not only monuments to human ambitions: they can play a key role in the development of mankind in the epoch of the space age. Today, proposals...

Reading various materials about space exploration reveals a general pattern: our universe is full of amazing things, but we do not have enough money to explore it properly. Liquid oceans have been found on several different satellites in our solar system, but the reduction in planetary research costs in NASA's budget means that we won't be able to study them for at least ten years. Congress has ordered NASA to construct the largest missile in history, but it is still unclear whether funds will be allocated to use it once construction is complete...

In the Soviet Union, the cult of science and space research was as close to religious studies as possible in an atheist state. Unfortunately, with the collapse of communism, this only positive trend disappeared. Even when, as early as in 2015, April 12, which is the World Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics, this date coincided with Orthodox Easter. Religious celebrations on the streets and television screens overshadowed the celebrations dedicated to the first human space flight. The Internet community...

Mars is unlikely to ever be at the top of the list of the most popular tourist destinations. Undoubtedly, the highest mountain in the Solar System, the extinct volcano Olympus, will appeal to a couple of amateurs. But in general, Mars is not the most pleasant place to relax. There is a very inhospitable landscape: canyons, volcanoes, craters and dried up lakes. The atmosphere on the planet is sparse and consists mainly of carbon dioxide. Mars has neither a protective magnetosphere, nor a Van Allen...