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 →
Smooth Sailing, Cygnus: Orbital’s New Cargo Ship Rockets to Space on ISS Supply Demonstration Mission
By Ben Evans Cygnus launches behind the ISS "onramp" road sign at Wallops Island (Credits: NASA). Less than two weeks after Pad 0B... Read more →
Water and Bombs
Stanislaw Ulam, the nuclear scientist who first had the idea of nuclear bomb propulsion (Credits: Universidad de Guadalajara). Studying the space... Read more →
Chelyabinsk Meteorite Delivered…Scriptures?
For many centuries, the workings of the celestial realm were considered wondrous, and frequently indicated the intentions of a higher being.... Read more →
Cygnus Launch Rescheduled Following Weather Delay
Orbital Sciences Corp's Cygnus demonstration mission to supply the International Space Station is back on track after a small snag. As NASA... Read more →