Forget NASA's giant rockets, forget even the Russian Space Agency's vintage but reliable Soyuz vehicles: The future of space travel for you and me (assuming we're filthy rich) is in private hands. Jeff Bezos' and Richard Branson's, ...READ»
Remember how the Ansari X-Prize resulted in the nascent commercial space trip business, with Virgin Galactic in the lead? Now there's a similar push to innovate space technology, but of a different sort: Space elevators, making the ...READ»
NASA's ambitious Constellation human space exploration program has been under an Obama-steered spotlight to see how it's going. That investigation has come to a stunning conclusion: NASA can't get to the moon if things stay as they ...READ»
When Piers Bizony was 10, his father asked him to keep a scrapbook of space travel. Four decades later, the science writer, still hooked, created this DIY manual for rocket jockeys. Though the book's structure is a weak conceit, it ...READ»
Another Apollo celebration event just hit, and boy it's a biggy: NASA released in-orbit photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that show the Apollo landing sites on the Moon, complete with amazing detail.The LRO is ...READ»
NASA's ambitious design to return humans to the lunar surface has been controversial right from the get-go. It calls for ditching the Space Shuttle entirely and abandoning nearly all of its technology except for the solid rocket ...READ»
That China has plans for a space station is not much of a surprise--the nation's space tech has been steadily advancing since its first satellite Dong Fang Hong 1 launched in 1970. But the fact that it's planning to launch the first ...READ»
Just the other day, an influential group of ex-astronauts--including Buzz Aldrin--publicly called for a new direction in the U.S. space effort, demanding more human space flight and even a Department of Space. And it's just possible ...READ»
A million Euros of funding (around $1.25 million U.S.) has just been awarded to Reaction Engines Ltd. to develop a radical kind of space launcher known as the Skylon. Far from being a pencils-slim structure rocketing into the sky on ...READ»
According to the Iranian news agencies, Iran has successfully launched its first satellite, dubbed Omid (hope) into orbit. It went aloft on a 72-foot Safir rocket, and was an all-domestic build. But should we worry about this ...READ»
When NASA selected two relatively small, new players in the space launcher game to provide cargo rocket supplies to the ISS during the gap between the Shuttle and Ares programs it represented something of a giant leap for the ...READ»
The International Space Station is nearing completion, and with the looming demise of the Space Shuttle program and significant gap before the next-gen Constellation-class rocket is available, a replacement set of launchers is needed. ...READ»
