Boeing Wants To Shoot Your Ass Into Orbit By 2015

Boeing wants to shoot your ass into orbit by 2015. How do we get on that press trip? [] ...

Dec 22, 2024

Face to Face With NASA's Lunar Rover Vehicle

It makes one horsepower. It’s the only car that’s ever been driven beyond Earth. The was one of many great moments in Hungarian-American engineering and, for a day, it showed up in Budapest. Unfortunate geopolitical circumstances may have prevented Hungary proper from having much of a car industry—aside from ,...

Dec 22, 2024

Yeah, But Will it Out-Accelerate a Saturn V?

If we were living in the golden age instead of the shoeless age of air travel, airline posters would look like this prop plane passing in front of the Moon. As observed by and all-around internet Renaissance man Eszpee, this photo is also evidence for the existence of a sort...

Dec 22, 2024

UFO Sightings Reported Near Nuclear Missile Sites

Apparently, aliens spied on before discovering was way more strange. ...

Dec 22, 2024

Inside The Soviet's Secret Failed Moon Program

The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Russian lunar lander. Soviet scientists were of their American counterparts in moon exploration...

Dec 22, 2024

Ridin' That Train, High On Refined Petroleum

I've always been told not to worry because it's not the size of a rocket that matters. Then I saw this and realized that yes, yes it is what matters. More on my own inadequacy below. This is the TMA-01M spacecraft rolled out by train to the launch pad at...

Dec 22, 2024

"As A Kid This Was The Only Van We Wanted To Ride In"

Commenter explaining how the (pictured) 1983 Excella "Astrovan" is the transportation he coveted when he was younger. We'll take the shuttle too. Photo Credit: Photo by Eliot J. Schechter/Getty Images ...

Dec 22, 2024

Richard Branson's Spaceport Is Actually Being Built

Later today, flamboyant British multi-millionaire Richard Branson will commemorate the completion of the main runway of , near the town of Las Cruces, New Mexico, where the project is based. Here's a look before Branson's big bash. , which could carry paying customers into suborbital space by early 2012, had...

Dec 22, 2024

"Sorry About Your Field, Comrade"

A photo from 2007 showing a cosmonaut enjoying a "relaxing afternoon" in a field next to his Soyuz capsule after missing his planned landing spot by 43 miles. Think you can come up with a better caption? [via ] ...

Dec 22, 2024

NASA Wants A “100-Year Starship”

It may sound like science fiction, but after a loose-lipped scientist revealed a /DARPA program to colonize other planets, NASA has confirmed. Some day, your great grandchildren might be driving cars on Mars. "The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds," the director of 's Ames...

Dec 22, 2024

These Are The Blueprints For The Millennium Falcon

Not a single Bothan died to get us . Take that Leia. Also, please note that Han lied. Those hidden smuggler compartments? They are totally on the blueprints. OK, sorry, back to the car geekery. ...

Dec 22, 2024

America's Largest Rocket Fires World's Largest Spy Satellite Into Orbit

America's biggest unmanned rocket, the Delta 4 Heavy, is shown here roaring into space Sunday. It's carrying a secret spy satellite for the United States into orbit that one official touts as "the world's largest." The giant boosters attached to the Delta IV Heavy each provide 744,737 pounds of thrust....

Dec 22, 2024

Space Shuttle Liftoff Is Like The World's Largest Burnout

Atlantis creates an earth-enveloping cloud of smoke unmatched by any hot rod during its November launch last year, as captured by Orlando Sentinel photographer Red Huber for his monthly calendaer wallpaper series. Download the wallpaper-res version . [via ] ...

Dec 22, 2024

Air Force's Unmanned Space Plane Comes Back To Earth

The U.S. Air Force's X-37b unmanned space shuttle landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California today following 220 days in orbit, touching down in darkness. Its mission? "Experimentation." Next one launches in spring. X-37B ...

Dec 22, 2024

A Space Shuttle Launch In Amazing HD Slow Motion

This video is an amazingly detailed close-up of three Space Shuttle launches tracked by multiple cameras shooting at 60,000 frames-per-second. What we view in a couple of minutes is stretched to 45 minutes of glorious high definition slow motion. Here's how NASA describes the video: Photographic documentation of a Space...

Dec 22, 2024