Space Flight

New Mexico Spaceport Design Unveiled

Somebody pinch me, because I still can't believe this is going forward. The world's first commercial spaceport took the next…

17 years ago

Ariane 5 Lofts Two Satellites

Two satellites were carried into space Tuesday evening, atop a massive Ariane 5 rocket, which blasted off from Europe's Spaceport…

17 years ago

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…

17 years ago

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…

17 years ago

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…

17 years ago

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…

17 years ago

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…

17 years ago

European Space Jet Unveiled

The European aerospace firm EADS Astrium revealed its plans for space tourism on Wednesday at a special event in Paris.…

17 years ago

Steven Hawking Soars

It wasn't real spaceflight, but it was the next best thing. For a short time on Thursday, Professor Stephen Hawking…

18 years ago

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…

18 years ago