LEGO Releasing an International Space Station Model on February 1st! Calling all Space Nerds! Oh, I’m sorry… Look, if you’re reading a site called Space Porn and you don’t consider yourself a Space Nerd, you’re deluding yourself. You may as well...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has a Moondust Factory that can make Oxygen from Lunar Dust! Europe’s space agency, the ESA, opened up a prototype plant to turn moondust into oxygen. While most of the news about NASA centers on...
Meet the New Boss; Same as the Old Boss—What Colonizing Mars May Actually Look Like Elon Musk took to the Twitterverse on Thursday night, revealing a lot of information about his plans for colonizing Mars. His grand vision: a city...
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Aces Its Final Milestone and a Falcon 9 Goes Boom! Watch Saturday’s Critical Safety Test Here. Saturday morning SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule passed its final critical safety test with flying colors. Actually, the capsule passed with exploding...
Engineers Hope for a Big Boom from the Falcon 9 Rocket During Tomorrow’s Crew Dragon Abort Test. Well, folks, we’re nearing a critical moment in human spaceflight. Tomorrow morning, SpaceX and NASA will conduct the final major safety test for...
Space Colonies May Rely on Fungi for Building Materials! So, it’s 2020. By all rights, if you’re my age and you grew up watching Marty McFly, then we’re in “The Future!” [Imagine my best Christopher Lloyd impression on that one]...
China’s Rocket Launches Are Happening at a Break-Neck Tempo. Can the Rest of the World Keep Up? Just over 24 hours after its last “mystery” satellite launch (the first of 2020), China launched another commercial satellite late last night (Wednesday)....
Eight Planet Candidates, Five Exoplanets, Two Super-Earths, One Cold-Neptune… and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. Okay, neither partridges nor pear trees have anything to do with this story. We do, however, have a lot to talk about when it...
Astronauts and Heroes Jessica Meir and Christina Koch Do It Again with the Second All-Female Spacewalk. This morning, despite a slight helmet issue, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed their second spacewalk together. Oh yeah… and that makes it the...
Japanese Billionaire and SpaceX Customer Maezawa Yusaku is Looking for Love (In all the Odd Places) This is just too good to leave alone. Maezawa Yusaku (I type it the Japanese way—family name first; deal with it) is widely known...
After Making History in October with the First All-Female Spacewalk, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are Ready to Head out into the Black Again Tomorrow. According to a tweet from astronaut Jessica Meir, she and fellow astronaut Christina Koch are...
That’s Right, the Space Cookies Baked By ISS Astronauts are Back Home on Earth! This holiday season, the astronauts aboard the ISS prepared a treat for some lucky earth-bound humans. That’s because back in November, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft...
China Launches a Long March 3B with a Mystery Satellite Payload to Kick-Off 2020. China’s space agency launched its first rocket of 2020 last Tuesday (Jan 7th). The payload, however, remains a mystery. In fact, there’s some disagreement between the...
It’s Friday Again! Time for the Top Space Tweets from the Twitterverse. It hasn’t been the busiest week in space news, but there have been some significant developments that are worth mentioning. We’re ready to run down the top five...
In What Could Be Their Final Safety Hurdle, Engineers Plan a Catastrophe for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Abort Test. If you’d have asked SpaceX officials a couple of weeks ago, they’d have said all of this would happen tomorrow. They’d have...
The Future of the Boeing Starliner Is Up in the Air—Even If the Craft Isn’t On December 20th, Boeing attempted to do what SpaceX did last spring. The CST-100 Boeing Starliner capsule launched into space headed for the ISS. Or...
Meet TOI 700 d: The First Earth-Sized Exoplanet Found in a Habitable Zone! Many astronomers these days find themselves in the planet-hunting game. A couple of big reasons for that include a fascination with searching for extraterrestrial life and the...
“The Mandalorian” Finishes the Season Just as Strong as When It Started. We all know I’m a Star Wars fan. If you’ve been reading Space Porn for any length of time, you probably also know by now that I might even...
SpaceX and NASA Are Taking Some Extra Time for “Spacecraft Processing” Before the Next Crew Dragon Safety Test. It’s speculation, of course, but one has to imagine that SpaceX engineers working on Crew Dragon have had a rough go these...
Betelgeuse May Be a Real Ghost After All Betelgeuse. Betelgeuse. Betelgeuse… Shoot. Nothing happened. And yes… I did say it out loud. Okay, so maybe the charismatic ghost played by Michael Keaton isn’t real. But the star after which he...
New Starlink Mission Makes SpaceX the Largest Commercial Satellite Operator in the World. The night sky just got more crowded by 60 SpaceX Starlink satellites. Yesterday at around 9 pm EST SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 mission of 2020....
We’re Back and Ready to Go for a New Decade! Before Jump In, Though, Let’s Take a Look at the Five of the Top Space Stories of 2019. A lot can happen in a year. And within the realm of...
Europe’s Moondust Factory: How to Make Oxygen on the Moon
