News

Final Soyuz-U Launched from Plesetsk

By Merryl Azriel on May 24, 2012

On May 17, Russia launched its final Soyuz-U rocket from the Plesetsk Space Center. The 40 year old launch vehicle family will be replaced by the... Read more →

Media

How Safe is Too Safe?

By Merryl Azriel on May 24, 2012

Robert Zubrin is an aerospace and nuclear engineer, inventor, and long time advocate of Mars exploration and colonization. Stymied by slow... Read more →

News

Famed SETI Director Retires After 35 Years

By Merryl Azriel on May 23, 2012

Astronomer Jill Tarter has announced her retirement from the SETI Institute where she has served as director for 35 years, leading the search for... Read more →

Cyber Security

New Hacking Group Targets NASA

By Rachel C. Samples on May 23, 2012

A new hacker group claims to be trying to help organizations like NASa improve their cybersecurity (Credits: The Hackers News). On May 1, NASA... Read more →

Space in Everyday Life

Astronaut Don Pettit Recreates the Stargate Sequence From 2001

By Staff Writers on May 23, 2012

The blog onorbit.com noticed a nice parallel between Don Pettit's last photo-shoots and the famous "Stargate Sequence" of Stanley Kubrick's... Read more →

Rendezvous and Docking

SpaceX Launch Changes Paradigm of Space Flight

By Michael J. Listner on May 22, 2012

A rendition of the Dragon capsule preparing to dock with ISS (Credits: SpaceX). The successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and its... Read more →