Okay, so Star Letters spend a lot of time talking about space, rockets, aliens, and even Star Wars…but today we are going to shake it up…kind of. Okay maybe not so much. Over the weekend, we had the opportunity to go to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida for Air Fest 2018. All day […]
With companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin making massive leaps toward the existence of space tourism and long duration space exploration, we at Star Letters have been concerned about one thing… WILL WE DRINK BEER IN SPACE? IF SO WHAT KIND? And if we do, is it going to be out of a squeezy pouch […]
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, 2018On 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 […]