Thursday, February 18, 2021, 3:15 pm ET. NASA’s Mars 2020 mission enters orbit around the red planet and prepares to insert the complex skycrane/rover/helicopter package into the thin Martian atmosphere. The heat shield functions perfectly, the parachute deploys, the back…
Mars is getting to be a busy place. The United Arab Emirates Mars Mission Al Amal (Hope) drops into orbit February 9. China’s Tianwen-1 (Quest for Heavenly Truth 1) arrives the next day, and NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, with the…
In 2018, China launched 39 space rockets into near-Earth orbit and beyond, beating out the U.S. (with 34 launches), and Russia (with 20). In 2019 China led the world again, with 32 successful orbital launches, compared to 22 flights from…
Bad news from NASA. Last Saturday’s hot fire test of the Artemis Space Launch System (SLS) was … unimpressive. The test plan called for the 212-foot, 2.3-million-pound core stage rocket to fire all four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines for a…
NASA isn’t paranoid. Someone is after them. Again. And things were finally going so well. President George W. Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration and the Constellation Program put NASA on a glorious path: complete the International Space Station, replace the…
In a media teleconference last week, NASA’s Acting Associate Administrator for International and Interagency Relations Mike Gold, and Director of Commercial Spaceflight Development Phil McAlister announced that two U.S. companies, Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colorado, and Masten Space Systems of…
This week, NASA selected four private companies to collect lunar resources to further its goals of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. In a distinctly effervescent teleconference, NASA Acting Associate Administrator Mike Gold announced…
Thanks to a statement from a former Hunter Biden associate and leaked emails that were never supposed to see the light of day, we now know that former Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in his son’s business dealings with…
Mars. I’m launching July 30, 2020, on an Atlas V-451 rocket, from Cape Canaveral. Yep — got my boarding pass and everything. We’ll achieve Earth orbit and hurtle out into space on a seven-month voyage — dodge her two moons,…
