Star Letters contributors are joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a sunset rocket launch. And it’s not just any kind of rocket launch. SpaceX has refurbished a Falcon 9 booster that previously launched a resupply mission to the International Space Station earlier this year and will now refly it […]
We live in the time before the time of regular space travel. Folks at companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Orbital, and SpaceX are the companies that fire off rockets on American soil. Sometimes those vehicles liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, and of course, Cape Canaveral in […]
Elon Musk Has Updated SpaceX’s Plans for Colonizing Mars. Here’s What We Know
September 29, 2017
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia to give an update on how the company will one day colonize Mars. Here’s what we know: 1. The new version of the Big Fucking Rocket (BFR) or Interplanetary Transport System is slightly smaller than what SpaceX originally […]
SpaceX Has Revealed Its Spacesuits. So When Are We Going To See Them Fly?
September 21, 2017
SpaceX is taking on the monumental task of returning humans to the Moon for the first time in 45 years. They plan to do so with a lucrative tourism mission targeted for late next year, and recently, SpaceX revealed the spacesuits that those brave passengers (and future adventurers) will wear. “Our space suits are really […]
On March 30th, 2017, something extraordinary happened: For the first time in aerospace history, a previously flown orbital-class rocket was launched for another mission after being recovered and refurbished by its owner, SpaceX. The industry said it wasn’t possible. Elon Musk said otherwise. For over 60 years, these rockets, considered to be the most technologically […]
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 […]
Did you know that there are 3,610 exoplanets, in 2,704 planetary systems and 610 multiple planetary systems according to Schneider, J. “Interactive Extra-solar Planets Catalog”, The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia? An exoplanet is a planet outside of our solar system that orbits a star, and we have thousands of them. Before 1992, we didn’t even know […]
Alyssa Carson is blazing her path to the red planet “Always follow your dream and don’t let anyone take it from you.” — Alyssa Carson Alyssa Carson wants you to know she’s going to be one of the first people on Mars. Since she was 3 watching the Backyardigans make the trip it’s been her dream. Codenamed […]
What if You Could Fly? Flying has always been a dream. People have written books and made movies of people floating in mid-air, and with the right materials, people in the past have made “wings” so they can float with the wind. These believers created the illusion for themselves and others of flight. Otto Lilienthal, […]
For many years, scientists and dreamers have fantasized what space life would be like. On planets, in a space ship, anywhere really. They imagine how we would live, how humans would, in any way, be able to survive. Elon Musk shares his own fantasies and how he will make Mars thrive with life, “It would […]
