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 →
All the King’s Horses: The Final Mission to Skylab (Part 1)
Boosted aloft atop a Saturn IB rocket, and utilizing a special “milk stool” to raise its umbilical connections to the proper levels on the Pad... Read more →
Doomsday or Payday? Nova Explores Asteroids
In the months since the Chelyabinsk meteorite startled a Russian metropolitan area by exploding just above the ground and shattering all the windows... Read more →