Zenith: Advances in Space Exploration

The development of reliable, high-powered boosters has enabled researchers to send probes to distant planets.

The ringed planet is of immense interest to researchers who believe that Saturn's ring system will share similarities with the proto-planetary disc.

Currently the only destination for Astronauts and Cosmonauts is the orbiting research platform known as the International Space Station.

The solar system's largest planet has been visited by automated probes since the 1970s.

Before spaceflight aviators began wearing pressure suits to allow them to function at higher ceilings.

For most of human history our neighbouring planets were little more that dots of light in the sky with comets and asteroids being a complete mystery.