Space Exploration Technologies
Incredible Vertical-Landing Grasshopper Rocket Has Retired
Did you take a moment to look at that August video of the Grasshopper rocket deliberately going sideways and then…
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Cygnus Commercial Cargo Craft Completes Historic First Flight to Space Station
Commercial space took another major leap forward this morning, Oct 22., when the privately developed Cygnus cargo vehicle undocked from…
To The Moon! Crowdfunded Solar Sail Shoots For Lunar Launch
It's a tiny satellite with ambitious goals: to zip all the way from the Earth to the Moon using a…
Hexacopter Drone Watches SpaceX Grasshopper Take Highest Flight Yet
This is an absolutely awesome view of the latest test flight of the SpaceX Grasshopper. The footage is shot with…
Chris Hadfield Regretted Not Being Able To Make One Last Spacewalk
Chris Hadfield loved spacewalking. That was clear in a past interview he did for Universe Today: It is like coming…
Rocket Failures May Spur Change In Russian Federal Space Agency: Report
It appears that the Russian government wants to take action over the string of unmanned mission failures beleaguering Roscosmos, or…
Huge Solar Sail Portion Unfurls In Crucial Ground Test
We're sure the people in that picture above must have had sweaty hands as they unfurled a huge solar sail…
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Navigating the Cosmos by Quasar
50 million light-years away a quasar resides in the hub of galaxy NGC 4438, an incredibly bright source of light…
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Doubly Historic Day for Private Space: Cygnus docks at Station & Next Gen Falcon 9 Soars
The Cygnus cargo spacecraft is just a few feet away from the International Space Station's Canadarm2 during rendezvous and berthing…
This Teenager Hosts Earth-To-Space Q&As With An Orbiting Astronaut
Meet Abigail Harrison. This teenager's enthusiasm about space so impressed Luca Parmitano -- who just happens to be a European…