Star Letter 002: Richard Branson Shows up to the Space Travel Party, but It’s Crowded and Messy
April 6, 2018
We know you’ve missed us, it’s been an entire week. We come bearing space stuff. The business and wonder of space exploration never stops and we’ve had quite an interesting week. Star Letters just completed a trip to Kennedy Space Center to observe SpaceX’s launch of supplies to the space station––which was beautiful. Why do […]
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 […]
SpaceX Inspired this Mother of Two. Now She Chases Their Rockets With a Camera
March 30, 2018
SpaceX is lighting a fire under the world of space exploration with breakthroughs in reusability and a promise of interplanetary travel. Millions around the world tuned in to watch the company fire off its hotly-anticipated Falcon Heavy rocket. But at Kennedy Space Center, photographers and journalists from around the world came to witness history in […]
This Med Student is Attempting STEM Outreach in Pakistan. It’s Proving Difficult.
March 30, 2018
I still remember that day, it was the second day of 9th grade and our teacher asked us what do we want to become after finishing school? The classroom erupted with mocking laughs of every student (including my teacher) when I said that I want to become an astronaut. I was 15 years old at […]
Tradition is a big part of any event, and launches are no different. Inside of the CBS building at Kennedy Space Center’s press site, there is one ritual that has been around for years…Oreos. Peter King with CBS News Radio tells us about this delicious tradition. King has been with CBS News Radio for over […]
We have liftoff! At 3:45 PM EST, SpaceX had a successful launch of their Falcon Heavy rocket. On this clear, sunny day, Kennedy Space Center is bustling with 100,000 people to watch the world’s largest rocket. There has not been this much activity in the area since the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011. In […]
Over a decade ago, astronomers were stumped to discover a large number of molecules that existed in the winds of supermassive black holes. This did not make sense to them because black holes are so full of energy and warm in temperature, whereas molecules are some of the coldest parts of space. The question had […]
It’s not a secret that human deep space exploration is the ultimate goal for both NASA and the commercial space industry. Like all exploration missions, there are years of preparation to ensure that everything is ready to go and will run as smooth as possible. One of the many things that need to be accounted […]
The Asgardia-1 satellite will be launched this fall by an international group of scientists, researchers, and industrialists to “mark the start of a New Space Age, sixty years after the first ever artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 orbited the earth.” The satellite is intended to be the inaugural spacecraft for what is being called Asgardia––the first […]
They feasted on pineapple and mangos. Then they had an egg frittata. The crew of four men and two women spent 8 months below the summit of the Big Island’s Mauna Loa. Why? Because they were a part of a study that would allow NASA to understand the psychological impact of a long-term space mission […]
