There’s nothing I’d rather see than a NASA built Orion spacecraft take astronauts beyond earth orbit. They could go to an asteroid, to Mars, wherever. But NASA would be breaking new...
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Private cargo ship to visit IS...
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Rockets blow up.
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To Mars and NOT back
An odd opinion piece in the New York Times today suggested an idea of how to get to Mars less expensively, perhaps within the currently restricted budget of NASA. The idea is: send the astronaut one way only. I don’t like the idea, but I enjoy reading about it. There’s no question that it’s much cheaper to leave the astronauts stranded on Mars. And, maybe...
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Wildfires came disturbingly close to Jet Propulsio...
The main campus of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Oak Grove, California was experiencing technical difficulties—wildfires approaching the facility. On Sunday, it was closed to employees except for “essential personnel.” The facility is used to develop spacecraft, including Mars rovers. It’s a critical part of NASA’s planetary missions. And...
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India’s moon mission ends—sudd...
After more than 300 days, India’s Chandrayaan-1 moon probe just stopped...
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Shuttle launches with (apparently) n...
The shuttle Columbia was destroyed, along with its crew, in a horrible tragedy...
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Europe wants Russian spacecraft
With the scheduled retirement of the shuttle fast approaching, and the...
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Group plans amazing celebration of G...
As any space buff knows, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the...
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South & North Korea united in f...
Just a few months after North Korea failed to launch a satellite, South Korea...
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