The Mighty Saturn Rocket
On November 9, 1967, 45 years ago, the mighty Saturn V made its unmanned maiden flight. Powered by five F-1 rocket engines on its first stage, five... Read more →
ESA STE-QUEST Mission Could Help Unravel Origin of Flyby Anomaly
General concept of the STE-QUEST mission. The clock on the satellite is compared with one or more ground clocks as the satellite orbits earth on a... Read more →
Orion Capsule Cracks in Pressure Test
The Orion pressure shell being tested at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (Credits: NASA/Ben Smegelsky). On November 19, a NASA spokesperson announced... Read more →
South Korea Ready for First Launch – Again
KSLV-1 being erected at the Naro Space Center launch pad (Credits: AFP). On November 22, South Korea announced that it would launch Korea Space... Read more →
ISS Tour: Kitchen, Bedrooms, and the Latrine
Sunita Williams shows the ISS equipment to take care of... Number one (Credits: NASA) NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who just returned from her... Read more →
American Company to Send First Commercial Astronauts to Moon
Astronaut Harrison Schmitt collecting rock samples during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, the last manned mission to the moon (Credits:... Read more →