Virgin Galactic aims to reach space with tourism rocket
• https://apnews.comMOJAVE, Calif. (AP) -- Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is preparing to take the long-awaited step of trying to fly its tourism rocket ship to the edge of space.
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MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) -- Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is preparing to take the long-awaited step of trying to fly its tourism rocket ship to the edge of space.
Virgin Galactic plans to perform the next test flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane as soon as Dec. 13, a flight that could be the first by the vehicle to reach at least one definition of space.
China's Chang'e 4 lander and rover spacecraft successfully entered lunar orbit Wednesday (Dec. 12) following a four-and-a-half-day flight to the moon.
Elon Musk could use metal hot structures for rocket re-entry.
The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will be completely reusable. The top stage is called the Starship. The combined first and second stage will be a bit taller than the Apollo rockets.
Eleven billion miles from Earth, NASA's long-lived Voyager 2 probe, still beaming back data 41 years after its launch in 1977, has finally moved into interstellar space, scientists revealed Monday, joining its sister ship Voyager 1 in the vast, uncha
The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will be completely reusable. The top stage is called the Starship. The combined first and second stage will be a bit taller than the Apollo rockets.
China launched a ground-breaking mission Saturday to land a spacecraft on the largely unexplored far side of the moon, demonstrating its growing ambitions as a space power to rival Russia, the European Union and the U.S.
A FEW YEARS ago, a company called Spaceflight had a wacky plan. The plan, in the words of CEO Curt Blake, was "Let's buy a Falcon!"
The moon has one-sixth the Earth's gravity and Mars gravity is 38%. There will be negative health impacts for people to live for extended periods at lower gravity. In space stations, we can spin the station to get the desired gravity.
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SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket into to orbit on Wednesday, carrying supplies to the ISS.
China is getting set to launch the first-ever surface mission to the moon's far side.
The CRS 16 launch to the ISS was successful, however during the booster landing phase the hydraulic system controlling the grid fins failed resulting in the booster spinning out of control. The booster still managed to make a soft landing in the wate
China is heading to the dark side of the Moon, in a journey no spacecraft has ever made before.
Trump's Space Force is to reshape the future of human kind with a whole new paradigm of technology about to be released to the public. Is space exploration about to become a household topic and Mars the new vacation destination?
Trump's Space Force is to reshape the future of human kind with a whole new paradigm of technology about to be released to the public. Is space exploration about to become a household topic and Mars the new vacation destination?
Most people probably did not notice that there was a large improvement in SpaceX's profit margin with their latest rocket launch.
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Elon Musk's company launched a rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Monday after a series of delays triggered by bad weather and last-minute inspections for the rocket. It marked one of the largest satellite ride-sharing missions ev
The technology needed for mining water ice on the moon and converting it into fuel is pretty straight forward. Various groups are already making the actual needed hardware.
An Indian rocket successfully lofted 31 satellites to Earth orbit late Wednesday night (Nov. 28), just a few days before the scheduled liftoff of a SpaceX booster that's even more jam-packed.
From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018.
Flat Earth/ NASA Busted! (NEW) I have several damning clips of NASA to drive home the fact that they are faking space. Harnesses, Wires and Green Screens. Update: Had to disable comments on this video on 30 Nov 2018.
Russia announces it will establish a lunar colony by 2040 just hours after NASA says it's returning to the moon 'to stay'
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says the U.S. is within 10 years of having a continuous manned presence on the moon, which will lay the groundwork for expanding space exploration to Mars. A Moon Direct plan (created by Robert Zubrin) could get con
Retail tycoon Yusaku Maezawa has made billions by ignoring Japanese cultural norms and grabbing publicity through increasingly controversial stunts. Now, Elon Musk's SpaceX is sending him to the moon.
The first SpaceX BFR could be flying into space in 2023. The SpaceX BFR will be fully reusable and will massively lower the cost of taking cargo to space. SpaceX has already lowered the cost of cargo to space into the $500 to $1000 per pound range us
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Elon Musk's SpaceX company has made rocket launches essential viewing, with a regular stream of dramatic successes and unfortunate failures.