SpaceX

SpaceX has long been making headlines for being pioneers in what some have called a privatized revolution in space flight.  Although they have yet to put a human being in orbit, SpaceX’s ability to land and reuse rocket stages, as well as the Dragon capsule they employ to ferry supplies to destinations like the International […]

A two-stage Falcon 9 booster with a pre-flown first stage successfully launched the EchoStar 105/SES-11 communications satellite to orbit today (Oct. 11), marking the third time SpaceX has pulled off such a used-rocket feat. The Falcon 9 lifted off at 6:53 p.m. EDT (2253 GMT) from historic Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. About 8.5 […]

Tech tycoon Elon Musk is no stranger to making headlines, or, one could argue, history, but even for Musk, his latest SpaceX announcement seems downright ambitious.  Last week, Musk not only laid out plans for a rocket-based transportation system that could put commercial airlines to shame, but he nonchalantly included plans to send a cargo […]

Can you travel from New York to London in under 30 minutes? How about Australia to London in 51 minutes? Well, Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame says it can and will happen. The billionaire entrepreneur said the BFR spacecraft unveiled by his company SpaceX will be able to fly to most places on earth in […]

A company called Rocket Lab is about to change space travel forever. Routinely taking satellites to orbit for $5 million will be a game changer! A space launch everyday in the near future? What do you think? US Aerospace company Rocket Lab is developing a world-first launch vehicle to deliver satellites into orbit cheaper and […]

SpaceX has recorded some major technological achievements with their rockets BUT it was not all pretty along the way. Enjoy this short video of SpaceX near misses. Featured image by SpaceX

In recent years it has become apparent that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is either a real world Tony Stark, using his futuristic technology to benefit the world, or our own Lex Luther hidden behind an excellent PR machine.  As he continues to unveil new technologies that promise to disrupt existing and often outdated […]

NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send people to Mars by the 2030’s. When people go to Mars they will need a high tech space suit much more advanced than what the astronauts wore on the moon. Plus, the gravity on Mars is one third that of the Earth compared to the moon being […]

On Sunday, SpaceX launched CRS-12, a cargo resupply mission destined for the International Space Station carrying a “supercomputer” that has garnered a fair amount of attention, and with good reason, as it may serve as an important step toward equipping future space missions with lifesaving artificial intelligence.  However, inside the U.S. Army Space and Missile […]

One of the largest challenges a human mission to deep space would face would be the inevitable communications delay caused by the vast distances between Mission Control on Earth, and the spacecraft carrying the crew.  During the Apollo missions, in which American astronauts visited the moon, that communications delay was only around 1.3 seconds each […]

While we tend to look back on NASA’s Apollo and Gemini days as a golden era of space exploration, for the men and women involved in the massive undertaking, peace was far from their minds.  Through the rosy lenses of history, we tend to think of America’s space pioneering efforts as an example of mankind’s […]

In an appearance at the 2017 International Space Station Research and Development (ISSR&D) conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage to answer questions about the future of his private space travel organization, as well as how some of his other endeavors may aid in mankind’s effort to become an […]