The Great Space Force NatSec Nip Slip

The Great Space Force NatSec Nip Slip

Space Force Chief General John Raymond admitted on a live stream that space is the “wild, wild west,” and the U.S. is no longer the fastest gun.

NASA’s Guardian Angels: Pararescuemen and the SpaceX launch

NASA’s Guardian Angels: Pararescuemen and the SpaceX launch

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center on May 30th. This was the first spacecraft to take off from the Kennedy Space Center’s pad since the Space Shuttle Program was shut down in 2011. The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service was on the front lines of this historic event. They provided an […]

Boeing’s rocket launch failure just cost the ISS astronauts their Christmas

Boeing’s rocket launch failure just cost the ISS astronauts their Christmas

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which is being developed in conjunction with NASA for crewed spaceflight operations, safely returned to earth on Sunday after mission control had to abort its resupply mission to the International Space Station. According to reports, the spacecraft’s internal clock was improperly set, and as a result, the ship entered into the wrong […]

Why can’t we get back to the moon? It’s politics, not rocket science

Why can’t we get back to the moon? It’s politics, not rocket science

In 1969, America won the Space Race by landing on the moon. In the half-century since, technology has made just about everything easier except getting back up there. In this two part series, we explore some of the reasons why a modern moon mission is a long shot in its own right. In part one, […]

Watch: SpaceX’s new Starship just exploded during testing

Watch: SpaceX’s new Starship just exploded during testing

SpaceX’s next generation rocket, known as the Starship, may one day ferry passengers and cargo to and from distant locations like the Moon and Mars. But you can’t get to deep space without breaking a few eggs (or spaceships, as the case may be). During pressure testing operations on Wednesday, a test version of the […]

Why can’t we get back to the moon? Apollo as a ‘one-off’ enterprise

Why can’t we get back to the moon? Apollo as a ‘one-off’ enterprise

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin fulfilled the dreams of generations as they stepped out of the thin protective shell of their lunar lander and onto the alien surface of our moon. For the first time in history, mankind occupied not one, but two separate and distinct celestial bodies, making their […]

SpaceX just tested the Starhopper and brought us one step closer to leaving Earth

SpaceX just tested the Starhopper and brought us one step closer to leaving Earth

SpaceX has once again released a video that sort of makes it seem like the science fiction of the 1950s had it right with its sleek, metallic rockets taking off and landing vertically on their fins. This time, with a groundbreaking test of a platform they’ve dubbed “Starhopper.” Starhopper is meant to serve as a […]