Here’s what NASA plans to do with its shiny new SpaceX spacecraft
As SpaceX gears up for the big sixth test flight of its Starship vehicle, NASA has announced its longer term plans for the next generation of SpaceX craft. The company…
Blue Origin shows off landing mechanism for New Glenn rocket
Blue Origin is aiming to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX by landing the first-stage of its new rocket, the New Glenn. Landing the first-stage booster after deploying the upper…
The Latest Threat to the Ozone Layer: Elon’s Starlink Satellite Megaconstellation
Thousands of satellites are currently parked in low Earth orbit, with some that will eventually become defunct and fall back towards our planet’s atmosphere. As they reenter the atmosphere, satellites…
A Parachute Failed to Deploy During Jeff Bezos’ Space Tourism Comeback Mission
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation following an incident during its first crewed flight in two years, in which one of the…
First Black astronaut candidate finally reaches space at age 90
The NS-25 astronauts during training at Launch Site One. Blue Origin Ed Dwight, was selected for NASA training in 1961, but the first Black astronaut candidate for the U.S. never…
Bezos’ Space Tourism Venture Set for Restart After Explosion Forced 2-Year Hiatus
Blue Origin is preparing to send a crew of private astronauts to suborbital space, finally resuming its space tourism program on New Shepard after nearly two years of it being…
Pentagon Mission Will Include Test of Blue Origin’s ‘Space Truck’
An illustration of Blue Ring in orbit. Illustration: Blue Origin Jeff Bezos’ space venture is ready to test its Blue Ring orbital platform, which could become a pivotal pitstop for…
Former Blue Origin Employees Want to Harvest Helium-3 From the Moon
Over billions of years, the surface of the Moon has been bombarded by solar wind, carrying high-energy particles that include a highly coveted resource, helium-3. Although the element is scarce…
SpaceX Photobombs the Moon and More of the Week’s Best Space Images
Photo: NASA Crew-7, consisting of (from left to right) Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, are shown…
When It Comes to Exploring Space, We’re Still Stuck in the Stone Age
We’re rapidly approaching the quarter mark of the 21st century, but instead of being at the brink of a radical transformative stage, such as the futuristic vision akin to Arthur…