Elon Musk has done it. Now that Twitter is going to be self-driving and Tesla cars won’t be able to carry more than 140 characters, lots of progressive people are already packing their bags to take off for Mars with…
Monday at 1:06 p.m. EDT, the SpaceX spacecraft Crew Dragon Endeavor splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico with its international crew of four private astronauts. Yep. Private — as in Private Pay. Axiom Vice President, former NASA astronaut, and…
Ho hum. It’s Thursday, April 21, and around 2:00 p.m. EST, booster B1060 — the latest SpaceX Falcon 9 mission — thundered skywards from Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Two and a half minutes…
On or about March 4, some experts believe that part of a Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX is going to crash its 8,000 pounds of force into the moon at about 5,500 miles per hour. We don’t…
On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 — 60 years to the day after astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. launched aboard Freedom 7 atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket to become the first American in space — SpaceX hit it out of the park, ushering…
Last year, hedging its bets against the remote possibility of a Biden–Harris victory, NASA began framing the Artemis Moon to Mars program in terms of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon. Against all odds, the Biden–Harris ticket…
Last week NASA announced that they had signed a Joint Spaceflight Safety Agreement with Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) to help regulate low-Earth orbit traffic patterns and enhance the safety of NASA spacecraft as they attempt to launch through the…
Thursday, March 11, 2021. In the wee hours of this morning (3:13 a.m. EST), B1058, the latest SpaceX Falcon 9 mission, thundered skywards from Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Today’s launch marks the 21st…
It’s Wednesday, March 3, and SpaceX’s Starship Serial Number 10 (SN-10) launches from Boca Chica spaceport. There’s a flash of incandescent light, a gush of dark smoke, and 165 feet of gleaming stainless steel rocket ship lifts skywards atop a…
