SpaceX Starship, The Company’s Next Big Thing, Suffers a Massive Failure Elon Musk has big plans for Starship, the SpaceX craft that is set to be the first “Mars-voyage-ready” vehicle. Unfortunately, Tuesday night one of the Starship’s prototype rockets, the...
Apollo 11 Launch Day: The Day the Giant Leap Began Fifty years ago today launch controllers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida scrambled around preparing for what they knew was going to be a historic moment. Aides and controllers checked...
NASA Powers Down Voyager Systems to Save Recourses for Terminal Stage. This week, Voyager 2 reached a point in its decades-long mission where some tough decisions need to be made. Recently, officials decided to power down the NASA Voyager 2’s...
US Mint Makes Commemorative Apollo 11 Coins Fifty years ago this month, Neil Armstrong placed his foot on the surface of the moon as the world watched. He radioed back to Houston the iconic phrase, “That’s one small step for...
SpaceX Reveals Timeline for First Commercial Launch Mission On Wednesday SpaceX announced plans for their first commercial launch. The company set its sights on launching in 2021, according to Johnathan Hofeller, vice president of commercial sales for the space company....
What Will Your Home on Mars Look Like? Now You Can See for Yourself! NASA Gives Half a Million to New Habitat Designers A few years back, NASA threw down the gauntlet to the public sector and said, “Build us...
It’s hard enough being a stargazer these days. Unless you live on a mountaintop, the middle of the desert, or on a tiny island in the Pacific, your view of our galaxy, let alone the rest of the observable universe...
The NASA Ultima Thule Report is In! As Sara reported in January, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft passed the Kuiper Belt and gave us some exciting data along the way. Well now the NASA Ultima Thule report is in, and it’s...
The Continuing Commercial Space Flight Saga You have to hand to the folks at SpaceX; they don’t let failure get them down. Last time I reported on the commercial space flight pioneers they were reeling from a disaster involving their...
Something Very Bad Happened On Saturday… …but neither SpaceX nor NASA are willing to come out and say exactly what happened. They refer to the testing failure of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule on Saturday as an “anomaly.” Unfortunately, the anomaly could...
So Our Timing’s Not Great… I realize that it just so happened that a major discovery was made concerning astrophysics on the day I happened to drop last week’s Barbarella review, so many of you may not have seen that...
Commercial space flight took a pretty big step forward Thursday. SpaceX successfully launched and landed all three of the booster rockets for it’s “Falcon Heavy” rocket system. The company develops rocket systems and is advancing the ultimate goal of commercial...
So India blew up a satellite last week… And so it begins. The weaponization of space. There are a lot of things to digest from this event, and I’m going to try to stay as apolitical as possible on this...
Bill Nye Crashes SXSW Panel On Saturday, Bill Nye stood up in the middle of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) SXSW panel and shocked everyone, including her. The TV host and world-renowned science advocate crashed the SXSW panel to ask the...
The New Horizons space probe made history this year. But what is the Kuiper belt anyway?Â
An asteroid has received the first ever visit by an extra-terrestrial being — Us!
NEW Ad Astra Trailer—And It’s Got Commentary!
