Flight of a Grasshopper
On November 3, SpaceX founder Elon Musk shared this video of the company's Grasshopper rocket on its first flight using closed loop thrust vector and... Read more →
Communication Satellites, Delayed by Breeze-M Failure, Now Deployed
Blast off of Proton-M/Breeze-M on November 2 from Baikonour Cosmodrome (Credits: Khrunichev). On Friday November 2, a Proton rocket with... Read more →
New York to Tokyo By Way of Outer Space
XCOR's Lynx suborbital spacecraft (Credits: XCor). Imagine the flight New York to Tokyo and you probably think of being cramped in an airplane... Read more →
Copenhagen Suborbitals and Exploring “Horrible Deaths”
Kristian von Bengtson (left) and Peter Madsen, founders of the Copenhagen Suborbitals (Credits: Bo Tornvig/Copenhagen Suborbitals). There is no... Read more →
Russian Space: Big Picture, Advancement, and Failures
By: Dr. A.Zhalko-Tytarenko The launch of Soyuz TMA-05M from Baikonour Cosmodrome on July 15, 2012. The Russian Soyuz is still the most reliable... Read more →
Leak-Fixing Spacewalk Complete
Preparing for EVA: Astronaut Kevin Ford plays music as his colleague sSuni Williams and Aki Hoshide dance in their spacesuits as part of their... Read more →