Collaborate Disseminate
After Richard Branson delivered some inspiring words from his seat aboard SpaceShipTwo Unity, he unbuckled himself and started to float around the vehicle’s cabin along with three other Virgin Galactic …read more Continue reading Virgin Galactic Cautiously Returns To Flight
Even if you’re just making a brief hop over the Kármán line to gain a few minutes of weightlessness, getting to space is hard. Just in case any of their …read more Continue reading Blue Origin Loses Rocket, Gains Abort System Test
When Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk reached the boundary of space aboard the first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule earlier today, it marked the end of a journey …read more Continue reading This Group of Women Tried to Break into Astronaut Program in 1960s; One Just Made It
To hear founder Richard Branson tell it, the first operational flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has been 18 months out since at least 2008. But a series of delays, technical …read more Continue reading Virgin Galactic’s Long Road to Commercial Spaceflight
If you are a certain age, you probably remember the promise of supersonic transports. The Concorde took less than 4 hours to go across the Atlantic, but it stopped flying in 2003 and ended commercial supersonic passenger flights But back in the 1970s, we thought the Concorde would give way …read more
Continue reading Air-Breathing Rocket Engine Promises Future Space Planes
The all-student team Space Enterprise at Berkeley plan to unveil their Eureka-1 rocket later this spring. Continue reading The Race to Launch the First Student-Built Rocket into Space Is On