Space Flight
3 Dead, 3 Injured at SpaceShipTwo Explosion
What a terrible couple of days for spaceflight. I thought NASA was having a tough time with its drunken astronauts…
Dawn Mission Pushed Back to September
One of my favourite upcoming missions is NASA's Dawn spacecraft, set to go into orbit around two different asteroids. It…
NASA’s New Einstein Probes Office
Albert Einstein made enough predictions about the nature of gravity and relativity that NASA has dedicated a whole office and…
Genesis II Launches, Deploys Solar Panels
Along with your jetpack, flying car, and moving sidewalks, a hotel in space is one of the great, undelivered promises…
Servicing Spacecraft Makes an Automated Fly Around
Launching a spacecraft is a big investment. If anything goes wrong, you've got hundreds of millions of dollars of junk…
European Space Jet Unveiled
The European aerospace firm EADS Astrium revealed its plans for space tourism on Wednesday at a special event in Paris.…
Steven Hawking Soars
It wasn't real spaceflight, but it was the next best thing. For a short time on Thursday, Professor Stephen Hawking…
SpaceX’s Falcon-1 Briefly Reaches Space
It wasn't a perfect launch, but it wasn't a disaster either. All in all, SpaceX took a big step on…
Stephen Hawking Will Experience Zero Gravity
Famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking is scheduled to take a ride on the vomit comet, and experience a bit of what…
Construction for the New Soyuz Launch Facility Begins
Workers broke ground this week on a new construction site at the European Space Agency's new Soyuz launch base in…