Space

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

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

3 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

3 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

4 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

4 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

4 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