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...
What’s With Orion?
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Private cargo ship to visit IS...
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Rockets blow up.
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Houston, we’ve solved a problem
Today is the anniversary of the launch of Apollo 13, a mission that failed to land on the moon, but is hailed for the ingenious problem-solving abilities of NASA. When there was an explosion aboard a spaceship headed to the moon, we managed to bring the three astronauts home alive. Difficult projects demand superior capabilities Space flight is like that. It’s inherently a...
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About the First Man in Space
Forty-eight years ago today, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. He rode the Soviet spaceship Vostok 1 into orbit, shocking America and the world with a major PR coup…and an incredible achievement. Not the best pilot Gagarin was s good pilot, but not the best. Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, who’s flight followed Gagain’s, was widely consider more...
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New astronauts—no spacecraft
With the retirement of the space shuttle scheduled for next year, this group...
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How astronauts didn’t land on ...
When the commanders of the six Apollo lunar landing missions took their lunar...
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A Challenge: Stopping a Fire in Spac...
Tragically, the Apollo 1 crew was killed by a fire in the cockpit—during a...
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Russia to shoot for the moon—maybe t...
When the Soviet N1 rocket failed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that ended...
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Space Adventures: Orbital Tourism to...
Despite claims that the current space tourist, Charles Simonyi, would be the...
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No excuse NOT to see Apollo 11, etc.
The Smithsonian has announced longer hours at their museums…including...
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