Accepting the Risk of Death in Spaceflight
Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen have been developing Copenhagen Suborbitals, the open source, backyard endeavor they founded to launch... Read more →
Cella Energy Hydrogen Pellets: Fuel Storage And Radiation Protection
Cella Energy's new hydrogen fuel, in pellet and fiber form (Credits: Cella Energy). Dr. Stephen Perusich, Senior Scientist at Cella Energy’s... Read more →
ATV-4 Successfully Docks with ISS
ATV-4 firing thrusters as it approaches the S3 hold point (Credits: NASA). The European Space Agency’s (ESA) fourth Automated Transfer... Read more →
“Space girls” 50 years after Valentina
It’s been fifty years since the first woman in history took off in a tiny Soviet space capsule to spend three days in orbit. Being officially... Read more →
Plastics May be Man’s Best Friend During Deep Space Travel
Artist's conception of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter above the Moon. The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument... Read more →
Gastronomy Domine: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Space Food
Space food, as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Credits: MGM). Neil deGrasse Tyson gives an interview for his StarTalk... Read more →