China Hosting the Biggest Space Congress in the World
The International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the biggest international space congress in the world, will open on Monday 23 September in... Read more →
To Summon the Future…
Burt Rutan has some reflections on the history of aviation with relevance to space travel: In 1908 only ten people had flown airplanes. Then…... Read more →
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 →