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The most expensive part of doing business in outer space is getting there. The private space flight company SpaceX thinks it can change all that, and it's about to face a big test of its technology.
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Ken Swinehart (Founder/President/Owner at Amigo.Net) comes on the show to talk about constitutional money/currency - Michael Belfiore (Author, Writer) provides and update on the private space race, mainly the successful SpaceX relaunch of a rocket -
There is evidence for subsurface oceans within nearly a dozen bodies (planets, asteroids and moons) in the solar system.
Though the exact value of China's spending on its space programs remains shrouded in secrecy, many analysts peg its civilian space budget at around $3 billion annually in recent years, a fraction of the $19.3 billion the United States allocated to NA
Space tourism industry has a chance to show benefits of less regulation If space truly is the final frontier, then it won't be long until the first pioneers are making the journey, as several companies race to take paying passengers out of the Ear
The partially reusable Falcon 9 and fully reusable Skylon are explored in this episode of Stan Draws Spaceships.
My, what big windows you have
Elon Musk has hit back at claims that President Donald Trump's new NASA bill will be good for his space exploration business, saying it does nothing to get SpaceX's mission to Mars off the ground.
A Mystery Space Plane Just Broke an Orbital Record - and We STILL Don't Know Why It's There
Facebook Twitter linkedin google Reddit NASA is leading the next steps into deep space near the moon, where astronauts will build and begin testing the systems needed for challenging missions to deep space destinations including Mars. The ar
Blue Origin has its first BE-4 rocket engine fully assembled and ready for testing -- and they pushed two more out the door recently.
China's breakneck economic expansion may be flagging, but the country's ambitions in space show no signs of slowing down.
If you can accelerate a particle close enough to lightspeed then it collapses into a Planck blackhole and that blackhole will almost instantly evaporate into gamma rays.
Last week, SpaceX announced it has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon in 2018. According to the company, the mission will use SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, a spacecraft designed deliver to large payloads to orbit
Extreme design by renowned Clouds Architecture Office features a super long skyscraper hanging from an orbiting asteroid.
Congress has only approved funding through 2024. What happens then?
Age-reversing pill that Nasa wants to give to astronauts on Mars will begin human trials within six months
China is developing a rocket stage and engine recovery system at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing.
Over the weekend, we reviewed the state of the solar data for March 2017.
Writing at Quartz, Tim Fernholz notes that early space tourists "won't benefit from the tight regulation we've come to expect in everything from air transport to private automobiles." Although the Federal Aviation Administration enjoys approv
The first private Moon landing could be made by a group of European scientists next year.
If you should one day find yourself in a spacecraft circling Mars, don't count on a good view.
SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, March 19, with more than 5,400 pounds of NASA cargo, and science and technology demonstration samples from the International Space Station.
'I thought no one would take me', the cosmologist and physicist said
A group of rocket engineers called PTScientists (Part-time Scientists), has built a landing module and two rovers, which are expected to launch in 2018 on board Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
North Korea "One Step Closer To ICBM Launch" After Successful Test Of "New Type" Rocket Engine
A researcher with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Matsumoto is deeply involved in the design of the space sail that will pick up where Japan's IKAROS left off.
If all the solar incident on Mars were to be captured with 100% efficiency, then Mars would warm to Earth-like temperatures in about 10 years.
SpaceX has won a $96.5-million contract to launch a GPS satellite for the U.S. Air Force.
In 2007, a West Virginia University astrophysicist named Duncan Lorimer detected a brief yet intense signal while combing through archival data from the Parkes Observatory telescope in Australia.
