Alice Gorman, Author at Startup Daily

Space

A rogue piece from one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets is about to crash into the moon

Alice Gorman - January 31, 2022 4 MIN READ

In a few weeks’ time, a rocket launched in 2015 is expected to crash into the Moon. The fast-moving piece of space junk is the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which hoisted the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite off our planet. It has been chaotically looping around Earth and the Moon ever… Read more »

Opinion

Women make ideal astronauts, but the problem is that space exploration has been designed for men

Alice Gorman - June 16, 2020 4 MIN READ

Only 566 people have ever travelled to space. Sixty-five of them, or about 11.5%, were women. NASA recently proclaimed it will put the “first woman and next man” on the Moon by 2024. Despite nearly 60 years of human spaceflight, women are still in the territory of “firsts”. Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in… Read more »