Space Exploration Technologies

Guest Post: Spaceflight is on the Verge of a Revolution, but don’t Count your Rockets Before they Land

Editor's note: This guest post was written by Lukas Davia & Marijn Achternaam. Typing “reusable rockets” into a search engine,…

10 years ago

Dream Chaser Spacecraft Maker Loses NASA Crew Contract Protest

Update, 4 p.m. EST: Sierra Nevada's statement, which was posted after the story was first published, is now mentioned below.…

10 years ago

NASA Robot Runs Into Snag After It’s Unpacked On Space Station

We're all a little scared (in the impressed-with-technology sense!) of Robonaut, that robot on the International Space Station that is…

10 years ago

NASA Mars Landing Craft Idea Is More Than Just Child’s Play

Assuming we can get humans all the way to Mars, how the heck do we land them on the Red…

10 years ago

Infographic: Dragon, Reusable Rockets And Other 2014 SpaceX Milestones

SpaceX has a big year ahead of it. The company not only plans to launch more Dragon cargo spacecraft to…

10 years ago

Could Lizard Hands Help Us Clean Up Space Junk?

We've written extensively about the orbital debris problem here on Universe Today. In a nutshell, just about every time we…

10 years ago

Mercury Spacecraft’s 2015 Death Watch Could Go One More Month

If all goes well -- and there's no guarantee of this -- NASA's venerable Mercury sentinel may have an extra…

10 years ago