NASA Begins Acoustic Tests On The Space Launch System
NASA's Space Launch System will have some pretty strong engines. As a result, the engines produce enormously loud sounds. The SLS is slated to be the most powerful rocket in history. The heavy-lift...
View ArticleSyria Now Has A Space Agency
Bashar al-Assad's beleaguered government of Syria announced yesterday that it is creating a space agency. This announcement comes as the long and bloody Syrian Civil War enters its fourth year. The...
View ArticleMissiles And Rockets Might Soon Smell Like Pine Trees
Genetic engineers have coaxed bacteria to brew high-energy pinene biofuel.
View ArticleWelcome To The Lab Of An Apollo Computer Anatomist
Fran Blanche’s workshop is more than a place to unwind. It’s home. “I put a bed in my office,” she says. Her fashion business is downstairs; upstairs is a music studio and a laboratory with 30 years’...
View ArticleMathematician Suggests New Way Get To Mars On A Budget
A mathematician says he's made the calculations to use ballistic capture to bring spacecraft to Mars more cheaply and safely than ever before.
View ArticleWhy was the Saturn V Black and White?
The Saturn V wasn’t the only black and white rocket of the Apollo era. There were many, they had German roots, and the scheme came down to heat.
View ArticleHow 3D-Printing Rocket Engines Could Win Back The Space Race
In the mid-1960s, NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center, outside of Huntsville, Ala., was a hive of rocket-engineering activity, ground zero for America’s efforts to establish herself as the world’s...
View ArticleBoeing And Saab Give New Life (And New Bombs) To Aging Rockets
There is a certain order to the universe of war: soldiers fight, ships sail, and bombs fall from the sky. A new project by Boeing and Saab upends the notion of what bombs…
View ArticleSpaceX Scrubs Rocket Launch For Today, Will Retry Tomorrow
4:30 p.m. And the launch has been put on hold. Weather violations make this a no go for today. You got to have perfect conditions for these missions, folks. 4:27 p.m.:…
View ArticleBlue Origin's Rocket Flies 58 Miles High [Video]
New Shepard--the primary rocket from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ private spaceflight venture, Blue Origin--flew a successful test flight yesterday. It climbed 307,000 feet, or…
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Unmanned SpaceX Rocket Blows Up During Launch
[Update 6/28/2015 at 2:13 p.m.]During a press conference, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said that the explosion may have originated from an overpressurization event in the rocket's second stage, but...
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After SpaceX Explosion, Supplies Are Finally On Their Way To The ISS
Progress 60 Lift OffNASAIn the wee hours of the morning, a Russian rocket packed with 6,000 pounds of food, fuel, and supplies successfully launched toward the International Space Station. Normally...
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See All The Satellites And Space Junk Circling Earth In Real-Time
Screenshot of James Yoder's 'Stuff In Space' websiteJames Yoder/Stuff In SpaceFrom down here on the ground, space looks like a pristine void. But Earth's orbit is actually crowded with a ton of stuff,...
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Elon Musk Reveals Cause Of SpaceX Explosion
SpaceX Rocket Explodesvia NASA TVA failed steel strut holding down a canister of helium probably caused SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to explode shortly after liftoff last month, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said...
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Balloons Are The Future of Space Tourism
Cliff Ransom, Editor-In-ChiefA few months ago, I found myself backstage with Bobak Ferdowsi. If you recall the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, then you probably remember him. Ferdowsi is a...
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Airbus Patented A Hypersonic Rocket-Powered Jetliner
PatentYogi's Visualization Of The Hypersonic AirbusScreenshot by author, from YouTubeCrossing the Atlantic used to take months, but a new patent for Airbus for a hypersonic jet airliner wants to reduce...
View ArticleWatch NASA's Deep Space Engine Roar To Life In Test-Fire
Mankind could leave its first footprints on Mars sometime in the 2030s. And if we want to get there, we’re gonna need a new ride. That’s why NASA’s building the Space Launch System (SLS), a heavy lift...
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What's The Deal With The Apollo Milkstool?
The sight of a rocket standing tall on its launchpad ready to carry men to the Moon is an iconic and powerful image of the Apollo era. The sight of a rocket sitting on a stool on the same launchpad is...
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LM-6 Rocket's First Launch Brings 20 Satellites Into Space
LM-6 Maiden Flight=GT at China Defense ForumThe LM-6's first flight on September 19, in Taiyuan, north central China, was a complete success, with the deployment of all 20 satellites.On September 19,...
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