Space Flight
White House Encourages NASA to Work on Space-Based Nuclear Power and Propulsion Systems
In what's likely to be one of the last space policy initiatives of his administration, President Donald Trump has issued…
SpaceShipTwo’s First Powered Test Flight Since Move to New Mexico Fizzles Out
Virgin Galactic lit up SpaceShipTwo's rocket motor for the first time in the skies over New Mexico today, but only…
Scientists Have Developed a Way to Make Human Skin More Protected from Space Radiation
Earth is a radiation cocoon. Inside that cocoon, the atmosphere and the magnetosphere keep us mostly safe from the Sun's…
New Photos From LightSail 2
Ten months in space! The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft just reached that milestone. And the fine folks at the…
Crew Dragon Will Be Launching on May 27th
NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27, 2020 for an historic mission: the launch of the first astronauts on the…
Even More Things That Saved Apollo 13: The Nail-biting Re-entry Sequence
50 years ago today, on April 17, 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 came home. Safely. Successfully. The world breathed…
Even More Things That Saved Apollo 13: Charging the Batteries
Following the explosion of an oxygen tank in Apollo 13’s Service Module on April 13, 1970, approximately 56 hours into…
Even More Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 1: The Barbecue Roll
Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third mission to land humans on the Moon. But on the night of…
SpaceX Has Requested Permission to Fly Starship as Early as March
According to recent filings with the FCC, SpaceX hopes to conduct their first test flight with the Starship Mk 3…
Record-Setting Space Travelers Return to Earth
A trio of space travelers returned to Earth this morning from the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Christina Koch,…