This Is The Adorable Letter A 7-Year-Old Sent NASA To Go To Mars

I bet you wanted to go to Mars when you were seven. Who didn't? But did you do anything to get yourself there? I doubt it. Dexter is seven, and he wants to go to Mars, but he isn't messing around. This kid sent a letter to NASA. That's more...

Apr 18, 2025

Jeff Bezos Finds Apollo 11 Rocket And Will Probably Have Sex With It

Jeff Bezos' company, Bezos Expeditions, confirmed this morning that the F-1 rocket motor recovered from the Atlantic is, in fact, one of the motors from the Saturn V rocket that put the first men on the moon. And I bet he'll be making love to it very soon. The engine...

Apr 18, 2025

Enjoy This Moon Landing Anniversary Moon Dashcam Footage

It was 44 years ago today that, with the aid of specialized spacesuits, American astronauts first urinated on the moon, claiming it for the United States.* To celebrate, here's some dashcam footage from the Apollo 16 lunar rover. While this is great, think how incredible the dashcam footage would have...

Apr 18, 2025

Check Out These Beautiful Photos From The Apollo 11 Moon Mission

Yesterday was the of the first time humans set foot upon the Moon, when the Lunar Module of Apollo 11 landed on July 20th, 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took plenty of stunning photos, and here are a few shots from angles you may not have seen before....

Apr 18, 2025

The Ten Greatest Space Achievements Nobody Knows About

There's more to space than Sputnik, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. Stepping on the Moon was certainly a big one, well done America! But when it comes to less known achievements (and casualties) in space, take a look at what the Soviets were up to! Warhol was supposed to do...

Apr 18, 2025

Japan Sends Jive-Talking Toyota Robot To Space Station

Okay, I added in the "jive" part. Because that's really all anyone wants out of a talking space robot, right? , actually speaks Japanese, and was developed by Toyota as part of their research into human-machine interactions. Oh, and because it's Japanese, the robot is adorable. The robot is pretty...

Apr 18, 2025

Rational Man Declares He Saw A Flying Car UFO

A New Zealand man says that he saw a UFO last night that had landed on a road and then flew into space. He says three other people in cars saw it too. They haven't come forward yet. Hmmm, wonder why that is? Apparently . It then took off vertically...

Apr 18, 2025

With One Small Step For Orion, NASA Practices Ocean Recovery

Humanity's next trip to the Moon is going to look a lot like it always has, with a bunch of people in a capsule rather than a Space Shuttle, and with a watery splashdown at sea rather than a smooth landing on a runway. NASA got back into the groove...

Apr 18, 2025

The Most Bizarre Spacecraft Landings Ever

Last week's test of an splashdown recovery got me thinking. Surely not every time someone comes down from space it's not going to go according to plan, right? It turns out, it definitely hasn't. When attempting any new endeavor, humanity tends to use the time-tested method of trial-and-error. Trial-and-error is...

Apr 18, 2025

NASA To Launch A Repurposed Missile To The Moon Next Month

It's not going to be carrying people or the first Waffle House to be placed on lunar soil, but the next rocket to be sent into lunar orbit will be launched from next month. This will be the first time the Wallops Island launch facility will send anything beyond Earth's...

Apr 18, 2025

Cute Robot Sent To Keep Astronauts Company Makes First Speech In Space

This humanoid communication robot, equipped with Toyota's voice-recognition software, said "On August 21, 2013, a robot took one small step toward a brighter future for all." It was the first robot voice ever heard in space, and boy was it cute. The is a joint research program being carried out...

Apr 18, 2025

The Houston Spaceport Concept Is An Airport For The 21st Century

Airports? Please. Those are soooo 20th century. The new millennium is all about spaceports, and if they look half as cool as these concept renderings for a possible Houston Spaceport, then we'll be traveling to the stars in style. The today released new concepts for the future of the Ellington...

Apr 18, 2025

Last Night's LADEE Launch Was Absolutely Spectacular

Last night NASA launched its latest moon rocket carrying the LADEE probe from its Wallops Island Launch Facility in Virginia, and the blaze coming out the back was visible across much of the . The most spectacular view though, was from the NASA cameras that were sitting up close to...

Apr 18, 2025

A Staggering 202,586 People Have Applied To Die On Mars

Say, would you like to die alone on an uninhabitable planet millions of miles from home away from everyone you have ever known and loved? If your answer was "Heck yeah I do," you may be one of the more than 200,000 people who have applied to die on Mars....

Apr 18, 2025

Why A Car Is The Best Thing We Can Send To The Aliens

Here's a hypothetical (for now) situation: we make contact with aliens out there somewhere. We're not able to visit one another physically, at least not yet, but we can choose one object to send to the aliens to explain who and what we are. The absolute best object we can...

Apr 18, 2025