Space Exploration
Spectacular Imagery Showcases SpaceX Thaicom Blastoff as Sea Landed Booster Sails Back to Port: Photo/Video Gallery
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Spectacular imagery showcasing SpaceX’s Thaicom blastoff on May 27 keeps rolling in as…
Reborn Antares Raised at Virginia Launch Pad for Crucial May 31 Engine Test
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – The soon to be reborn Orbital ATK Antares commercial rocket sporting new first stage engines has…
The House Makes NASA A Counteroffer It Probably Can’t Refuse
NASA's proposed new budget is mostly good news, though some planned missions will not be funded.
America’s First Asteroid Sampling Mission OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Florida Launch Base
America’s first ever mission designed to retrieve samples from the surface of an asteroid and return them to Earth -…
SpaceX Calls In The Lawyers For 2018 Mars Shot
The focus of space exploration, and exploitation, has long been the technologies required. But there's a legal aspect to space…
Orbital ATK Proposes Man-Tended Lunar-Orbit Outpost by 2020 for Link Up with NASA’s Orion
Orbital ATK has unveiled a practical new proposal to build a near term man-tended outpost in lunar orbit that could…
NASA’s Orion EM-1 Crew Module Passes Critical Pressure Tests
The next Orion crew module in line to launch to space on NASA’s Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) has passed a…
2 By Sea, 1 By Land, 3rd Recovered Booster Joins SpaceX Siblings: Up Close Gallery
Rolling rolling rolling! Yee-haw! 2 By Sea, 1 By Land. The 3rd recovered Falcon 9 booster has joined her siblings…
Upgraded Antares Rolls Out to Virginia Launch Pad, High Stakes Engine Test Looms
An upgraded version of Orbital ATK’s commercially developed Antares rocket has at last rolled out to its launch pad on…
1st Boeing Starliner Hull Assembled as 1st Crew Flight Delays to 2018
As completion nears for the prototype of Boeing’s first Starliner astronaut taxi, the firm announced a slip into 2018 for…