Tag: SpaceX

SpaceX, the commercial spaceflight company that has made repeated headlines in recent years for garnering NASA contracts to ferry equipment, and soon people, to and from the International Space Station made history once again on Thursday; this time for being the first private organization to re-launch a previously used orbital rocket. The first stage of […]

It seems like every week there is some new event taking place in commercial space exploration. For the first time SpaceX reused a rocket that it had previously flown a year ago. And to make it even more of a spectacular event they went ahead and landed the booster safely on a floating ocean platform. […]

One week after SpaceX announced plans to orbit two paying customers around the moon, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com and owner of The Washington Post, announced his own plans to change the face of human space travel; by landing 10,000 pound shipments of supplies on the lunar surface in his own space craft by […]

China has announced plans to launch the core module for their own space station next year, with additional modules intended to follow soon thereafter. Once completed, China’s space station will be smaller than the current International Space Station, but with the ISS slated for retirement in 2024, China may be the only nation with a […]

Four days before Christmas in 1968, Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first human beings ever to leave Earth and successfully complete an orbit around the moon.  It was the second manned flight of the Apollo program, and its success created the basis for Neil […]

SpaceX, the privately owned spaceflight company announced they will send two private citizens on a trip around the moon and back to the Earth by 2018. The company says the two paying passengers, who are yet unnamed, approached them about a possible trip to the moon. SpaceX says the two people have already paid a […]

SpaceX, likely the biggest name in the growing private space travel industry, successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a Robotic Dragon cargo capsule from the storied Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center – the very same platform used to send astronauts to the moon during the Apollo missions, and later the host […]

SpaceX made history today executing the first commercial spacecraft launch from the historic Launch Complex 39A that sent men to the moon and was last used for the Space Shuttle about six years ago. The Falcon 9 rocket was carrying the Dragon spacecraft loaded with supplies for the International Space Station. Watch: The SpaceX Falcon […]

SpaceX landed their rocket on a floating barge in the Pacific Ocean and returned it safely to the Port of Los Angeles. The Falcon 9 had put 10 satellites into Earth orbit Saturday after it launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Los Angeles, California. The rocket booster that SpaceX successfully launched and recovered over […]

SpaceX landed their rocket on a floating barge in the Pacific Ocean and returned it safely to the Port of Los Angeles. The Falcon 9 had put 10 satellites into Earth orbit Saturday after it launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Los Angeles, California. The rocket booster that SpaceX successfully launched and recovered over […]

Boom Technology, Inc, a Colorado based aviation startup has a vision! They plan to offer everyday travelers supersonic passenger service that is routine, affordable and safe. Tuesday, November 15th the Richard Branson backed company, introduced the ‘Baby Boom’ XB1 Supersonic Demonstrator. The XB1 Baby Boom is a one third sized version of the Mach 2.2, […]

“The truth is hard to hear but Congress must listen: Without an engine, a rocket is a giant, multi-ton, multi-million dollar paperweight, and that paperweight will not lift critical ISR assets off the ground.”