NASA Crashes Helicopter in “Smash Hit”
On August 28, NASA engineers at Langley Research Center crashed a helicopter filled with dummies to gather information on surviving such an incident.... Read more →
RD-180 Sales Ban Rumor
As some of you probably saw on twitter last night, Russia Today ran a piece claiming that Russia was mulling a sales ban on the RD-180 rocket... Read more →
‘If Something Happens’: Mission 51I and the End of an Era, Part 2
Continued from Part 1. For Dick Covey, the pilot of Mission 51I, the instant that Space Shuttle Discovery broke the shackles of Earth on the cusp of... Read more →
NASA Test Fires 3D Printed Rocket Fuel Injector
An engineer inspects the injector (Credits: NASA). Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center have posted a video showing the successful... Read more →
‘Crankin’ APUs’: Mission 51I and NASA’s ‘Can-Do’ Spirit, Part 1
When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down in Florida on 19 April 1985—suffering seized brakes and enduring a burst tire in the process—she left... Read more →
Epsilon’s First Flight Postponed Due to a Glitch During Launch Sequence
The maiden launch of JAXA’s Epsilon rocket was postponed due to a last-minute glitch on August 27. The launch from the Uchinoura Space Center in... Read more →