• space.com, By Jennifer Lawinski and Anita Rahman
When the private spaceflight company SpaceX launches its third cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station, the flight's robotic Dragon spacecraft will be packed with 5,000 lbs. of vital supplies, including some intriguing technology an
The space shuttle was supposed to be a shuttle: it was supposed to be a vehicle that could trundle off to space, come back, get refueled, and then go back up again with a minimum of fuss or expense.
The search for extraterrestrial life zeroed in a bit today as NASA announced that its unmanned Kepler Space Telescope detected the most Earth-like planet yet found beyond the Solar System.
On Monday, SpaceX, the California-based private space exploration company started by PayPal and Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk, agreed to take over the management and maintenance of Launch Pad 39A from NASA for the next 20 years.
There are a lot of online resources for information about space history, but none can rival the combination of thorough and adorable you’ll find at Historic Spacecraft.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched cargo to the International Space Station today at 3:25pm ET, and then turned around and flew back to a soft landing in the Atlantic Ocean. The cargo will reach the station on Sunday morning.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a cargo to the International Space Station today at 3:25pm ET, and then turned around and flew back to a soft landing in the Atlantic Ocean. The cargo, flown on a Dragon capsule, will reach the station on Sunday mor
One of the most important things we can do in the wake of discovering an exoplanet with characteristics similar to that of Earth is to visualize what that world may look like up-close.
There are a lot of online resources for information about space history, but none can rival the combination of thorough and adorable you’ll find at Historic Spacecraft.
Secondary Payloads: Falcon 9 CRS-3 mission - deliver 5 CubeSats to orbit contained in four Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployers (P-PODs). (BTW - Watch for a return landing of the First Stage of Falcon 9... little birdie told me
Scheduled for launch in 2016, OSIRIS-REx will return the first samples ever taken from a special type of asteroid that scientists believe holds clues to the origin of the solar system.
Visionaries are making it possible for private space travel to anyone who can afford the ticket, lunar missions, planetary and asteroid mining, and back here on earth, super fast, super efficient cars.
XPRIZE and Google have incorporated Milestone Prizes into the Google Lunar XPRIZE in order to reward teams who achieve key milestones on their way to ready their subsystems for launch.
Someday, either because of curiosity, necessity, or both, the human species will need to leave planet Earth and travel to the stars. But we must consider several important factors before we begin our journey.
Richard Branson is one of the world's most high profile billionaires. His 40 year career spreads across air travel, mobile, financial services, hospitality and space travel.
The Google Lunar X Prize will award 30 million dollars to the winner to the first privately funded team that successfully lands on the moon, travels 1650 feet and sends video, images and data back to Earth.
Former astronaut Ed Lu thinks the biggest threat to our existence is up in the air. Way up in the air. His nonprofit, the B612 Foundation, wants to set up a defense perimeter around the planet. Not against aliens, but against asteroids—life–eradicati
When two stars collide, or a massive star blows up, the fabric of the universe warps and springs back sending gravitational waves across the cosmos. So Einstein predicted.
Mars aligns with the sun and Earth today (April 8) in a cosmic event that occurs just once every 26 months, and you can watch it all unfold live online.
The ISS Progress 55 resupply craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 9th, 2014 and docked nearly 6 hours later. There are 3 tons of food, fuel and gear onboard.
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