Space

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Here’s how NASA could have tried to rescue the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia if they had known the spacecraft was going to disintegrate on re-entry

Here’s how NASA could have tried to rescue the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia if they had known the spacecraft was going to disintegrate on re-entry

If NASA had known ahead of time Columbia was going to disintegrate on re-entry, how would they have gotten the… Read More

2 months ago

X-37B Spaceplane lands after 908 days in space

X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 was the first mission to introduce a service module-a ring attached to the rear of the… Read More

5 months ago

Space Movie could make Top Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise the First Civilian to Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station

The project will have Cruise and the rest of the film crew take a rocket to the International Space Station… Read More

6 months ago

NASA bids farewell to SOFIA: the unique Boeing 747SP aircraft modified to carry a reflecting telescope made its last flight

NASA Boeing 747SP, registration N747NA, modified to carry a reflecting telescope for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), operated… Read More

6 months ago

Here’s how much Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin earned for their moonwalk on the Apollo 11 Mission

How much money did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin earn for their moonwalk on the Apollo 11 mission? Did they… Read More

8 months ago

Here’s why in many ways Elon Musk’s Starship is a 21st Century version of the Classic Douglas DC-3

As Elon Musk tweets challenges to Vladimir Putin, launches astronauts to the International Space Station, builds electric vehicles, attempts to… Read More

1 year ago

NASA Contractor explains why the Space Shuttle smelled quite bad when ground crews got aboard after a flight to clean and unload

Is true that the Space Shuttle smelled quite bad when ground crews got aboard after a flight to clean and… Read More

1 year ago

One Step Closer to Flight: time-lapse video shows manufacturing of the X-59 QueSST aircraft from May 2019 to June 2021

The time-lapse video in this post features the manufacturing of the X-59 QueSST and includes the merger of its main… Read More

2 years ago

If NASA had known ahead of time Space Shuttle Columbia was going to disintegrate on re-entry, they could have tried to rescue its crew. Here’s how.

Columbia was the first space shuttle to fly in space; its first flight took place in April 1981, and it… Read More

2 years ago

Did you know NASA had to borrow U-2/SR-71 “yellow” Pressure Suits for first space shuttle mission?

Prior to the first shuttle mission (STS-1), the launch of Columbia, there was a defect detected in the batch of… Read More

2 years ago

Sierra Nevada Corporation cleared to land its Dream Chaser spacecraft at former Shuttle Landing Facility

Sierra Nevada Corporation has entered into a Use Agreement for Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility to land the Dream… Read More

2 years ago

The story of Neil Armstrong’s X-15 Test Flight that Bounced Off the Atmosphere

Neil Armstrong inadvertently pulled too high an angle of attack during pullout. The X-15 flight path took a bounce in… Read More

2 years ago

Daredevil ‘Mad Mike’ Hughes dies while Launching Himself in His Homemade Rocket

Hughes was scheduled to launch his homemade rocket for a new Science Channel series called "Homemade Astronauts." Daredevil "Mad Mike"… Read More

3 years ago

Iran launches Ballistic Missiles at 2 Iraqi Bases Housing U.S. Troops

The facilities are Erbil in northern Iraq and Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq. A U.S. official confirms to… Read More

3 years ago

The Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane Lands After 780 Days in Orbit and Sets New Record

The X-37B spaceplane was designed for an on-orbit duration of 270 days. The Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 successfully… Read More

3 years ago

The True Story Behind the Famous Sequence of The Right Stuff Movie featuring Chuck Yeager’s NF-104 Ejection

Chuck Yeager hasn’t bailed out an airplane since the day he was shot down over Germany when he was twenty…… Read More

4 years ago

719 Days of Orbital Spaceflight and Counting: the Mysterious X-37B Set New Spaceflight-Duration Record

The current X-37B mission has broken a new spaceflight-duration record that was previously set at 717 days, 20 hours and… Read More

4 years ago