NASA Commercial Crew Partner SpaceX Completes Orbit and Entry Review
Source: NASA NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) recently reviewed the systems critical to sustaining... Read more →
“Easily Retrievable Asteroids” May Prove Mining Boon
A team of scientists at the University of Strathclyde went looking for some asteroids that would make good candidates for space mining. They found... Read more →
SpaceX Grasshopper Makes Exquisitely Controlled Lateral Move
In a divert test on August 13, SpaceX's vertical-landing Grasshopper tried out its first lateral move. With a degree of control difficult to believe,... Read more →
Personal Jetpack Ready for Flight Testing
PhysOrg reports that New Zealand company Martin Aircraft has been cleared to perform human flight testing on a personalized jetpack called P12. The... Read more →
Balloon a Go…No-Go? — Gildenberg’s Call, Part 1
By Mike Shinaberry Then-Capt. Joseph Kittinger stands next to the Excelsior gondola which, supported by a helium balloon, carried him 102,800... Read more →
A Belated Resolution in the Story of Henrietta Lacks
In the Spring 2013 issue of Space Safety Magazine, senior editorialist Tereza Pultarova related the story of Henrietta Lacks, an uneducated black... Read more →