Three Companies You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Are Becoming Private Moon Lander Partners With NASA. If it seems like there’s a new development in the Artemis program every week, that’s probably because there is—more or less. NASA has just over...
The 20-Year NASA Veteran Shares His Unique Perspective on North Korea from Space. We write a lot here about the promise that space exploration brings to humanity. That promise lies in understanding who we are as a species, where we...
Disney Knocks It Out of the Park with Star Wars: The Mandalorian Pilot Well, boys and girls, Disney Plus is finally here and that means so is the first season of Star Wars: The Mandalorian! I say the first season,...
Kelly Clarkson Had a Great Conversation with Jessica Meir and Christina Koch about Spacewalks, Moonwalks, and Astronaut Self-Care Kelly Clarkson started out as an American Idol, but the pop singer now dominates daytime television. Yesterday, she called the ISS and...
Yesterday’s Successful Static Fire Test Puts SpaceX Crew Dragon in Position for Crucial Upcoming Flight Tests Yesterday at around three o’clock Eastern time, engineers fired up the escape-system engine on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule. The capsule’s SuperDraco engines passed...
NASA Responds to Backlash Over Nazi Ties to Ultima Thule Name. The object formerly known as Ultima Thule will henceforth be known as Arrokoth. The leadership of NASA’s New Horizon’s mission nicknamed the object. And much was made of New...
Despite the President’s Insistence That the Moon’s Not a “Big Deal,” White House Officials Ask Congress for $2.3 Billion More In Order to Meet Its Self-Imposed 2024 Deadline. Let’s start by saying there’s a lot to unpack here. I’ll do...
With SpaceX Taking Up So Many Headlines, Here’s What the other Commercial Space Companies Have Been Up To… Let’s face it. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. And when it comes to making headlines about space, few wheels are more...
The ISS’s NICER Telescope Observed an X-Ray Burst That Released The Same Amount of Energy in 20 seconds as It Takes The Sun About Ten Days To Release! The Neuron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope mounted on the ISS...
The Next Phase of the SpaceX’s Revolutionary Internet Service Program is in Orbit after They Successfully Launched 60 Starlink Satellites Yesterday. SpaceX wants to put a lot of satellites into orbit. Of course, they’ve been successfully doing it for a...
Pilots: Attention! ES:O Version 0.072 is Packed With Incredible New Features and Content You’re Gonna Love! Hey there, all you Epic Space: Online and Space Porn junkies! In the words of Professor Farnsworth, “Good News, Everyone!” ES:O unveiled Version 0.072,...
SpaceX’s Next Falcon 9 Launch Features Several Firsts for Musk’s Dream of Reusable Rockets. Elon Musk turned a bunch of heads earlier this week when he told the Air Force that he could launch Starship at a cost of around...
As the 2024 Artemis Deadline Looms, Boeing Pitched Its Idea for a Lunar Lander on Tuesday. I have to admit some biases here before we start. First, I’m a proud Washingtonian, and Boeing is headquartered here. Naturally, I want them...
The Fate of the Clipper Mission to Europa Might Depend on an SLS Rocket That Is Simply Too Costly to Sustain. For Once, The Trump Administration and I Agree on Something: The SLS Rocket Has Got to Go. In a...
The Next Generation of Internet Service is One Step Closer as Musk and Co. Get Ready to Add to Its Constellation of Starlink Satellites. It’s been about three months since SpaceX launched a rocket. That doesn’t mean there’s been nothing...
At the Air Force’s Space Pitch Day, Elon Musk Said That His SpaceX Starship Rocket Will Only Use Around $900,000 Worth of Fuel Per Mission. Officials from the U.S. Air Force (our actual, functioning space force) met with engineers, business...
Despite SpaceX’s Claims that They’re Years Ahead, Boeing Says Starliner Could Carry Astronauts Next Year. Today Boeing successfully pulled off a pad abort test for their Starliner crew capsule. The successful test comes just one week after SpaceX President and...
The First ISS Crew Launched Nineteen Years Ago. People Around the Twitterverse Cheer the Accomplishment and Are Already Getting Ready for Next Year’s Big ISS Anniversary. On Halloween of 2000, the first long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS)...
After New Horizons Discovered Some Amazing New Data, a Return to Pluto May Be on NASA’s Agenda Soon. NASA might make a return to Pluto in the near future. Recently, the agency, funded the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in order...
This Show Was So Bad I Didn’t Make It Through the First Episode for a Review, and Now Netflix is Renewing Another Life. First, let’s just say that I’m not going to use this as a platform to bash the first...
Looking for Some Cosmological Terror? We’ve Got the Five Scary Space Movies to Take Your Halloween into the Void and Beyond! Today we celebrate all things that are wonderfully spooky! Halloween brings joy to millions each year. And for many...
Our Finest Space Scientists Are Embracing Halloween with NASA’s Galaxy of Horrors Trailer! What frightens you most? Is it a ghost? Perhaps it’s a ghoul who makes you feel like a fool. Monsters and vampires, spiders and bats. These are but...
Europe’s Moondust Factory: How to Make Oxygen on the Moon
