Space Generation Congress Kicks Off in Beijing
The 12th convening of the Space Generation Congress (SGC) began at the Beihang University, in Beijing China, on September 19. SGC has gathered 122... Read more →
Hacked NASA Sites Still Down
On September 11, a Brazilian hacker took down fourteen NASA Ames Research Center websites, replacing them with the message: NASA HACKED! BY... Read more →
DARPA Seeks Experimental Spaceplane
By Edward Wright The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has initiated a new program, called Experimental Spaceplane 1 (XS-1), to... Read more →
9 Minutes Before Space
It takes nine minutes from the time a Soyuz lifts off from Baikonour Cosmodrome until it and its crew reaches space. It is those nine minutes that... Read more →
Smooth Sailing, Cygnus: Orbital’s New Cargo Ship Rockets to Space on ISS Supply Demonstration Mission
By Ben Evans Cygnus launches behind the ISS "onramp" road sign at Wallops Island (Credits: NASA). Less than two weeks after Pad 0B... Read more →
Water and Bombs
Stanislaw Ulam, the nuclear scientist who first had the idea of nuclear bomb propulsion (Credits: Universidad de Guadalajara). Studying the space... Read more →