For everyone else, get back to work and ordering those Amazon Prime deals Blue Origin is planning to launch its first crew into space on July 20 – and a seat on this inaugural spaceflight is up for auction.…
Lees meerFriends don't drop rocket remnants on friends, m'kay? The spent booster stage responsible for placing the first module of China's next space station into orbit is set to make an uncontrolled rendezvous with Earth.…
Lees meerBlue Origin, Dynetics cry foul NASA’s $2.89bn contract awarded to SpaceX for its Starship rocket to send the first American woman and next man to the Moon has been put on ice after SpaceX’s competitors complained to the US Government Accountability …
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Lees meerConfirmation happened at pace. Shame the same can't be said for Artemis Former US Senator Bill Nelson has been confirmed as NASA administrator with breath-taking speed (compared to his predecessor).…
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Lees meerExpected to host three astronauts for a decade, starting in 2022 China has placed the first module of a crewed space station in orbit.…
Lees meerBuzz Aldrin sole remaining survivor of Apollo 11 Moon landing Obit Michael Collins, the one Apollo 11 astronaut too few remember, has died of cancer at the age of 90.…
Lees meerQuantum experiment may clear the way for viable silicon photonics – chips with electronic and photonic interconnects Researchers in a team led by the University of Surrey reckon they have accidentally found a new way to use silicon as a powerful pho…
Lees meerIngenuity's third flight goes further, faster, as Perseverance snaps pics 'n' vid of 'copter zipping past VIDEO NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has flown flying faster and further than ever before - even when it was on Earth - and we even have vid…
Lees meer'Everything in this industry always goes to schedule and to plan,' he says Interview Rocket Lab is on a roll, notching up multiple launches and unveiling plans for something considerably grander than its workhorse Electron.…
Lees meerSecond jaunt to the International Space Station for Endeavour SpaceX has launched the second operational Crew Dragon mission, sending another four astronauts to the International Space Station.…
Lees meerFirst, COVID vaccinations, now atmosphere generators for an alien world? We're really cooking on gas now Earthlings have succeeded in creating oxygen away from their lush home world and on the unforgiving dust planet Mars for the first time, using e…
Lees meerSpace-saving structures could work well in 'space missions' An applied maths professor and her team have dreamed up inflatable origami structures they say could save time and energy in erecting emergency shelters, such as those vital to refugee camp…
Lees meerOur stellar neighbor's biggest-ever belch would frazzle us Earthlings Astronomers detected the most energetic solar flare ever seen from the Sun's closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri. In fact, the cosmic belch was so intense, they doubt the s…
Lees meerSend more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress US military leaders have claimed China has a satellite with a grappling arm, and said its existence highlights the needs for increased funding to match the Middle Kingdom's a…
Lees meerHistory in the making for the tiny open-source-powered whizzing chopper Video Ingenuity has successfully performed a solar-powered autonomous flight on Mars, NASA confirmed on Monday.…
Lees meerNASA’s JPL lab speaks to The Reg The first human-made helicopter to take flight on another planet, Ingenuity, has hovered in Martian skies after NASA at last launched the device into the air.…
Lees meerAnd the 13th guy NASA today announced the next US lunar mission will use SpaceX's HLS Starship to put American astronauts on the Moon's surface.…
Lees meerThough at this point, it would be really great if could beam us up from this planet Photos and videos taken by US Navy officers of strange-shaped aircraft streaming across our skies a couple of years ago have been officially labelled as unidentified…
Lees meerIt's floaty floaty vom time as boffins plan prototype cooler spin on modded 727 Boffins are set to get a ride on the Zero Gravity Corporation's "weightless research lab" to test a refrigerator designed for jaunts to orbit, the Moon or even Mars.…
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