space

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket, lighting up SoCal skies

Posted in Hardware on 24th Dec, 2017
by Alex Muller

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday evening, boosting a fourth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into orbit in the rocket-builder's 18th launch this year.

Spacex has successful ISS mission with reused rocket and Dragon capsule

Posted in Science on 19th Dec, 2017
by Alex Muller

This mission marks the first time SpaceX has flown both a flight-proven Falcon 9 and a flight-proven Dragon spacecraft in the same mission.

Blue Origin flies booster and crew capsule

Posted in Science on 17th Dec, 2017
by Alex Muller

Blue Origin New Shepard flew again for the seventh time on Dec. 12, 2017, from Blue Origins West Texas Launch Site.

Elon Musk: We Should Already Have a Lunar Base by Now

Posted in Business on 15th Dec, 2017
by Alex Muller

Following Trump's signing of a directive telling NASA to refocus on the Moon, Elon Musk took to Twitter to voice his opinion that we should've had a moon base long before now.

President Trump signs directive to return astronauts to the moon

Posted in Science on 12th Dec, 2017
by Alex Muller

President Donald Trump signed a directive that United States will begin a process to return Americans to the moon.