Flawed Risk Assessment Leads to In-Flight Engine Failure
On March 25, 2009, a Bombardier DHC-8-402 operated by Japan Air Commuter Company departed from Tanegashima Airport in Tanegashima, Japan. While... Read more →
China Launches Chang’e 3 On Country’s First Mission To Land On The Moon
By Mike Killian Today, under cover of darkness, China successfully launched their first robotic lunar rover atop a powerful Long March-3B rocket... Read more →
Did Meteorites Strike a 7-Year Old Florida Boy?
Fox News reported that a 7-year-old boy of Loxahatchee, Florida, might have been struck by a meteorite while playing in the driveway of the... Read more →
Falcon 9 GEO Launch Attempt Aborts for the Second Day
SpaceX, for the second day, had to call a scrub of its attempt to launch the SES-8 telecommunications satellite into geosynchronous transfer... Read more →
Space Wardrobe Design: Chinese Spacesuit Analysis and Inspiration
Chinese taikonauts Zhai Zhigang (center), Liu Boming (right) and Jing Haipeng return from their Shenzhou-7 mission in which China's first EVA... Read more →
All the King’s Horses: The Final Mission to Skylab (Part 2)
Forty years ago this week, in November 1973, NASA launched its third and final crew to the Skylab space station. As recounted in yesterday’s... Read more →