space

Bigelow Aerospace offers plan for an expandable space station orbiting the moon by 2020

Posted in Science on 4th Mar, 2017
by Alex Muller

By 2020, NASA and commercial astronauts could be living and working in lunar orbit inside a functional space station.

Virgin Galactic spins off dedicated satellite launch company

Posted in Science on 3rd Mar, 2017
by Alex Muller

Virgin Orbit will launch satellites into orbit using the LauncherOne vehicle, which is released from a 747-400 aircraft.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos wants to start shipping packages to the Moon

Posted in Science on 3rd Mar, 2017
by Alex Muller

He says an Earth-to-Moon shipping route will be key for human colonies.

SpaceX will send 2 people on a trip around the moon next year

Posted in Science on 28th Feb, 2017
by Alex Muller

The identities of the two space travellers was left unannounced.

NASA's next Orion flight could be manned

Posted in Science on 27th Feb, 2017
by Alex Muller

The first manned Orion mission was planned for 2021, but could now take place in 2019.