Space Flight

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…

18 years ago

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…

18 years ago

Virgin Galactic Considering Hypersonic Airline Travel

Flightglobal.com is reporting that NASA and Virgin Galactic have signed a memorandum of understanding to work on commercial spaceflight and…

18 years ago

Blue Origin’s Rocket is Finally Revealed

It's been a huge secret for several years. Amazon.com's founder Jeff Bezos has a rocket company on the side called…

18 years ago

Jules Verne Spends 21 Days in Space, Here on Earth

ESA's new Automated Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne, has recently spent 21 days in a chamber that simulated the cold, radiation…

18 years ago

Podcast: Plasma Thruster Prototype

If you're going to fly in space, you need some kind of propulsion system. Chemical rockets can accelerate quickly, but…

19 years ago

Researchers Create a New Plasma Thruster

Researchers from the Australian National University have created a prototype thruster that could offer a new form of propulsion for…

21 years ago