Virgin Galactic’s First Commercial Spaceflight Set to Take Off
Tomorrow, June 29th, history will be made as Virgin Galactic launches its first-ever commercial spaceflight from New Mexico’s Spaceport America. The mission, called Galactic 01, will carry four passengers and […]
Star Trek’s Captain Kirk Will Finally Visit Space Next Week … For Real This Time
Blue Origin announced actor William Shatner and Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s Vice President of Mission & Flight Operations, will fly onboard New Shepard NS-18. They will join crewmates Chris Boshuizen […]
Space Travel for Billionaires is the Surprise Topic with Bipartisan Support – But Not From Gen Z
Joseph Cabosky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill With Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson both flying to space in craft made by their own private companies, July 2021 was […]
Discovery to Send Contestant to Space in All-New Competition Series “Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?”
Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered what it would be like to travel to space? Today, Discovery announced it has ordered Who Wants to Be An […]
Warp drives: Physicists give chances of faster-than-light space travel a boost
Mario Borunda, Oklahoma State University The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.25 light-years away, or about 25 trillion miles (40 trillion km). The fastest ever […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Thursday, April 8, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
Failure to Launch; SpaceX rocket launch postponed due to inclement weather
Just 30 seconds before liftoff yesterday, SpaceX grounded a Falcon 9 rocket launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Falcon 9 completed all of its pre-launch sequencings, including loading liquid oxygen, before the launch’s cancellation. Mere seconds were left before the engine controller would have commanded the rocket’s engine ignition sequence to begin.
A Lawmaker’s Guide To The Galaxy
At the 2017 International Astronautical Congress, Elon Musk boldly announced his goal to land two rockets on Mars by 2022, then the first crews by 2024. As space settlements are […]
Is the EmDrive the Future of Space Travel?
A secret NASA project was recently revealed, and it is rocking our very understanding of physics. It may alter the trajectory of the entire human race. The project? It’s called […]