Featured image: The Air Force X-37B space plane (Boeing) Back in May, the Air Force’s classified X-37B space plane touched down at Kennedy Space Center’s former Space Shuttle Landing Facility after a two-year mission. On Thursday, the mini fixed-wing spacecraft will be launched to orbit again atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is scheduled […]
The coming solar eclipse is transfixing Americans and the scientific community across the country. The event will be a rare and significant celestial movement that will encourage ordinary people to take a few moments from their lives and experience a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event––a mind (and light) bending alignment of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. On […]
It’s been over a month since Elon Musk’s SpaceX completed a rapid fire of three missions. The company broke its record for the number of launches in a year with an epic double-header weekend in which it launched and landed the Falcon 9 rockets from both Florida and California. Now, SpaceX will end its hiatus […]
Brad Pitt will star in Ad Astra, a science fiction thriller that will attempt the “most realistic depiction of space travel that’s been put in a movie.” Pitt will portray astronaut Roy Mcbride, an engineer on the autism spectrum who will face unexpected psychological and emotional challenges during his long and arduous mission to Neptune. […]
A Voyage to Jupiter Sends Back Hope, Inspiration, and a Trove of the Extraordinary
July 14, 2017
Depending on where you stand on our tiny rock in the cosmos, things may not be looking up. Whether it’s human conflict, the migration crisis, or the environmental dilemma stemming from climate change, there’s plenty of reason to think our civilization is in jeopardy. Is the bright light that was once our future dimming? Where […]
Some people ask me the reason why I talk about the stars so much. Why do I mention space exploration in my conversations so often? To me, it is rather strange how we don’t talk about the stars more. How we don’t find it surprising that we are so small in contrast to the […]
Today’s Star Letter is from Robin Seemangal. *** NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s space coast is called the gateway to the stars. That’s where I am writing this Star Letter and I hope it finds you well. It’s early in the morning, just after sunrise. I’m sitting on the grass in front of the […]
