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An airship boom in Southern California
Photo: the Aeroscraft in a hangar in CA. Image: Worldwide Aeros, Inc. In the Los Angeles Times, an article about an aerospace industry boom of sorts in Southern California, involving new twists on an...
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Shuttle Endeavour flies over California today, en route to LA retirement
Photo: Shuttle Endeavour's final landing at Edwards AFB. September 20, 2012. By Todd Lappin If you're in California today, Friday, Sept. 21, you may have a chance to see space shuttle Endeavour's...
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SpaceX launches first official cargo resupply mission to International Space...
SpaceX this weekend "successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on the first official cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station," at 8:35 p.m. ET on Sunday...
View ArticleSpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully attaches to ISS
At 9:03A ET, #Dragon was secured to the space station, its home for the next 2.5 weeks. twitter.com/SpaceX/status/…— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 10, 2012 For the second time in 2012, a SpaceX Dragon...
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Free-fall from stratosphere, live now
The Red Bull Stratos attempt is happening now. Above, an embed of the live stream. 7 weird but magical words: Red Bull Mission Control Roswell New Mexico! Expert parachuter Felix Baumgartner, best...
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Highlights of the Felix Baumgartner Red Bull Stratos "free-fall from space"
A highlight reel of yesterday's spectacular skydive from the edge of space. As blogged during the event, and reimagined in LEGO and cat GIF form, Austrian parachuter Felix Baumgartner dropped out of...
View ArticleCelebrate the first interplanetary holiday!
Tonight is Yuri's Night — a holiday celebrating the first human spaceflight. You can throw a Yuri's Night party yourself, or simply join one of the 340 parties that are already scheduled. Scheduled...
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Vintage futures: Next Stop Mars, 1952
In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, reader JMV shares this wonderful scan of a 1952 feature from the Vancouver Sun's "Weekend Picture Magazine" on the coming age of travel to Mars. Illustration by Edgar...
View ArticleAtlantis returns to Kennedy: a review of the space shuttle's new permanent...
“Is it still flying?” I have been asked that question many times. Back in 2011, I was proud to answer “yes.” But the answer is now “no,” which angers many in the space community, and also leads some...
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NASA spaceflight review concludes agency lacks ability to get humans to Mars
Washington Post: "A sweeping review of NASA’s human spaceflight program has concluded that the agency has an unsustainable and unsafe strategy that will prevent the United States from achieving a human...
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ISS crew forced to take shelter from hazardous space junk. Again.
[caption id="attachment_406552" align="alignnone" width="1199"] NASA image of the International Space Station.[/caption] A small piece of space junk from an old Russian weather satellite forced the...
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“Nominal” Soyuz launch sends Expedition 44 crew of three to International...
Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
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How to name an exoplanet, by XKCD
Randall Munroe has a hot take on the recent space news around Kepler 452-B and Pluto. (more…)
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Dark Side of the Pluto revealed in new NASA image from New Horizons mission
[caption id="attachment_408644" align="alignnone" width="1920"] NASA[/caption] Today, NASA's New Horizons mission team revealed a slew of new data including this breathtaking “farewell” to our...
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Virgin Galactic crash blamed on “single human error”
[caption id="attachment_409672" align="alignnone" width="850"] The National Transportation Safety Board's acting chairman, Christopher Hart, second from left, visits the scene of the SpaceShipTwo crash...
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#FalconHeavy success: SpaceX launches world's biggest rocket
UPDATE: THEY DID IT. It couldn't have gone more perfectly. (more…)
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Virgin Orbit fails on first rocket launch attempt, 'next big test ASAP' for...
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit failed on its first rocket launch attempt, which took place out of the Mojave Spaceport in Southern California. Here's a quick shot from takeoff....
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The SpaceX Dragon docks with Space Station to "Blue Danube"
OK, I really need this. It's the SpaceX Dragon rendezvousing and docking with the International Space Station with "Blue Danube" as the soundtrack. Holy 2001, Batman! Image: Screengrab
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WATCH: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity completes 2nd flight from...
Definitely book me on the very first flight off this hell-planet 2020, yes please. This gorgeous short video from Virgin Galactic documents the mission that resulted in a successful glide flight that...
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WATCH: Virgin Galactic spaceship new cabin design reveal
I'd totally go. Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic unveiled a new cabin design today, and streamed the launch event live. Watch the replay here, and sign up for a trip if you've got plenty of cash...
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WATCH: Astronauts prepare for rare splashdown in SpaceX capsule, target is...
WATCH THE SPLASHDOWN EVENT LIVE HERE, the SpaceX video embed in this post will go live with pre-event content sometime before 7pm EDT on Saturday August 1. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken...
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Boeing's first crewed Starliner space mission may launch as early as 2021
Boeing said Tuesday it plans a do-over of its unmanned Starliner crew capsule flight test to the International Space Station (ISS) in December or January, and that if it's successful, a crewed mission...
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China claims its first reusable spacecraft has landed after 2-day orbit
• China did not release images of the reusable spacecraft it says completed a two day space flight. China's government announced Sunday that its first reusable spacecraft landed after two days in...
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Intro to Gaganyaan ("Sky Craft"), India's first crewed mission to space
This seven minute video on the Astrum YT channel is a decent introduction to the Gaganyaan mission, the ISRO's (Indian Space Research Organisation) planned crewed mission to space. Two un-crewed...
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This cool new arts residency wants to transform interstellar space waste into...
Greywood Arts is a wonderful artist residency and workshop in Killeagh Village, County Cork, Ireland. Like many places in both the hospitality and arts industries, they've been at a standstill during...
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Space Force has an operational weapon, and there's no going back
I've been following the work of military technologist Kelsey Atherton for years, and I've always enjoyed his insights into the most fascinating and horrifying aspects of the defense industry. In a...
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Comparing altitudes between Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, and SpaceX
Our friend Jim Leftwich created this infographic comparing the altitudes of the billionaire boys club space launches. Image: Jim Leftwich
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John Edgar Park hams it up (again) in ADABOX unboxing video
If you've never seen an ADABOX from our friends at Adafruit Industries, they are beautifully-curated, themed electronics project kits (centered around a microcontroller or other piece of Adafruit...
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Startup wants to launch satellites with slingshots instead of rockets
Trans-orbital rocket launches can be expensive, and wasteful. That's why a newish company called SpinLaunch has envisioned an alternative: a giant centrifugal slingshot that basically whips the...
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Why 2021 was the weirdest year in space
Was 2021 the kookiest year ever in space? With leaky toilets, ships exploding on the pad, rockets falling from the sky, and Captain Kirk taking a ride up the gravity well, Gizmodo says yes. With space...
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