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2020 Hasn’t Been All Bad. Here's Some Good News From the Year So Far.
Some uplifting news to tide us through the rest of the year.
Russians are mocking their space program after the SpaceX launch
One posted a decrepit playground spaceship under the caption, “your rocket.” And contrasted that with the Falcon Heavy as, “your mom’s friend’s son’s rocket.”
Moon Landings Are Back in Style, and Other Space Trends of 2017
A total solar eclipse, the grand finale of a beloved orbiter, and two lunar touchdowns are on the schedule for 2017.
You Can Now Build and Budget Full-Sized Rockets For Launch Online
The site allows users to select payload weight, rocket configuration, service options, orbital trajectory, all with a transparent price quote.
Somehow, Canada's Newest Spacebound Astronaut Seems Overqualified
David Saint-Jacques is a medical doctor, engineer and astrophysicist.
For SpaceX, Another Successful Launch, Another Crashed Rocket
A hotter reentry and lesser fuel make latest landing attempt more difficult than usual.
Meet the Hollywood Prop Designer Making NASA's Spacesuits
He was so good at designing fake spacesuits that he was hired to do the real thing.
Meet the Women Driving the Space Tourism Boom
One is a wealthy and influential promoter of private space travel; the other mortgaged her home to buy a ticket into orbit. Both are making space tourism possible.
How Will Humanity Need to Change if We Want to Live on Other Planets?
Lord Martin Rees—Astronomer Royal and a professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge—talks cyborgs, nuclear power, and the end of Darwinian natural selection.
American Kisses Spacecraft Monogamy Goodbye
In April 2010, President Obama said, "nobody is more committed to manned space flight, to human exploration of space, than I am." He called for more robotic exploration, extending the life of the ISS, and bringing in private contractors to create the...