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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Boeing: Entering space tourist biz
Working with space hotel company, Bigelow Aerospace, the experienced aeronautics and space company Boeing is planning a commercial venture. It will operate a vehicle that can carry tourists into orbit—and presumably to a space hotel owned and operated by Bigelow. The craft, with the boring designation CST-100, is supported in part by an $18 million grant from NASA to develop the...
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Short Hiatus
I’m doing a little terrestrial travel for a week or so. Feel free to look back on older stories here—I’ve got nearly 2 year’s worth! I hope you do exactly that and find something interesting. Didja know that Gordon Cooper launched a tiny satellite from his Mercury flight? Or that the Soviets had a mission that shuttled between 2 space stations? What about those...
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NASA photo stream of excellent photo...
For $26 billion, NASA gave us a couple of great moonlandings—and a slew of...
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The Accidental Asteroid Tourist
Asteroids are all the rage. We worry about being hit by one. We talk about...
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That Earth-moon photo
I know I’m supposed to be excited about the new solar system discovered...
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Danish one-man rocket testing next w...
This is very odd. Next week, a non-profit called Copenhagen Suborbitals will...
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JFK: A joint Soviet-American moon la...
The document is called National Security Action Memorandum Number 271. The...
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A few words about mission patches.
Every manned American space mission, since the first Mercury flight has had a...
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In preparation for the Apollo moonlandings, NASA sent a series of unmanned probes to the moon to check out the situation…and to find good landing sites. Crashing, Orbiting, Landing Ranger went to the moon and sent back photos and data, prior to crashing. Luner Orbiter, a more sophisticated vehicle, circled the moon taking pictures and [...]
My guide to space museums…now online.
I just re-launched a better-than-ever space museum resource: a website called “Museum of Space Travel.” The site provides information about space museums, and where to find historic flown spacecraft now. Also, visitors can rate and comment on museum exhibits. One of my goals is to get active participation from the museums themselves. I would like [...]
Finding a heavy lift vehicle.
Congress really wants a heavy lift vehicle. And they want it fast. Or maybe they don’t. It’s hard to tell, because member of Congress attack NASA for saying they can’t do it without enough money or time. (The HLV NASA had been developing—Ares V—was cancelled by the president.) And Congress never comes up with the [...]
