NASA quietly published the above photo of Commercial Crew Astronaut Sunita Williams on the agency’s website, buried in a blog post. Is this the ultimate Starman cosplay, or should Sunita be called Starwoman from now on? Here was the original caption: “On the left, NASA astronaut Suni Williams, fully suited in SpaceX’s spacesuit, interfaces with […]
SpaceX has successfully launched the maiden flight of its new Block 5 Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with Bangladesh’s Bangabandhu-1 geostationary satellite. The next and final incarnation of SpaceX’s workhorse rocket, the most launched in the world in 2017, lifted off from historic Apollo 11 Pad 39A at 4:14 PM Eastern and […]
The southern coast of Bangladesh is lined with a torrent of rivers that empty into the Bay of Bengal. This is where a majority of the countries 250 million people live and the density of the population is extreme. For years, the fledgling nation has been crippled by widespread poverty caused by lack of natural […]
Over 16 Years ago, Elon Musk went to the Russians to try and buy decommissioned ICBMs––missiles used for warfare but left unused when the Soviet Union collapsed. They laughed in his face, and on the flight home, Musk had an idea: Let’s build this rocket ourselves. Elon Musk’s spaceflight company, SpaceX, has revolutionized the design […]
On Saturday, May 5th, the InSight rover, led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), will launch atop a ULA Atlas V rocket to…. Mars! Not only is this the first interplanetary launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, but this is the very first mission to study the interior of Mars, and the first […]
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches Another Flight Test With Eyes on Space Tourism
April 30, 2018
On Sunday afternoon, Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin launched an eighth suborbital test flight of their New Shepard rocket from Van Horn, Texas at 12:06 PM Central time. The crew capsule part of the launch system reached 351,000 feet, 1,000 feet past their target reach. The vehicle used for this mission, known as Mission 8, was […]
This ‘Seamstress of the Stars’ Kept NASA’s Space Shuttle Safe and Stylish
April 11, 2018
When I first would think of the Space Shuttle, I always thought of it as basically an airplane that went to outer space. Of course this was when I was a child, but as I grew up, I still thought of the exterior of the shuttle as metallic and tough, especially since it had to […]
Did you know that there were two brave robotic emissaries currently speeding through interstellar space after leaving our solar system? It’s true. And in millions of years, these twin probes that carry humanity’s most daring ambitions, will be found and studied by alien civilizations far in the expanse. On February 14th, 1990, while soaring through […]
Cape Canaveral–– The Elon Musk-founded rocket provider SpaceX, launched their 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA on Monday afternoon, marking the company’s second mission on a fully-reusable launch system. That means that both the Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule have both flown on previous resupply missions to the ISS and have […]
For the first time in the agency’s history, NASA will launch a probe toward the sun. For science! The groundbreaking mission will launch the Parker Solar Probe to a distance of within 4 million miles of the Sun. The probe will become the first human object to get that close to our host star and […]
