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Anonymous Bidder Buys Actual $5.6 Million Rocket in Online Auction
8 Apr 2020, 05:16 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Taking online retail to a whole new level: CASIC subsidiary ExPace sells KZ-1A rocket on Taobao in a livestreamed auction viewed by 2 million people
11 Million Humans Are Leaving for Mars in Name
27 Mar 2020, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The names of 10,932,295 humans were inscribed on three fingernail-sized silicon chips and fitted on the rover that would leave this summer for Mars
This Is How a Martian Rover Shoots Itself
23 Mar 2020, 09:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The only functional rover on Mars, Curiosity, sent back 86 photos of itself that got stitched by NASA in a monumental selfie
Perseverance Rover Gets Its Martian Rocks Picking Tools
20 Mar 2020, 13:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Adaptive Caching Assembly and the Bit Carousel hardware got installed on the Perseverance rover, mission still a go for now
Coronavirus Hits Space Operations, NASA Goes on Lockdown
20 Mar 2020, 11:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA Michoud Assembly and Stennis Space Center are going to close at the end of this week, work on the SLS and Orion suspended
First Astronaut Launch from U.S. Soil in More Than a Decade Set for May
19 Mar 2020, 11:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA sets launch date for the crewed Dragon mission to the ISS for the end of May, pending the evolution on the coronavirus pandemic
Perseverance Is the Name of NASA’s New Mars Rover
6 Mar 2020, 09:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The 2020 Mars Rover gets officially named Perseverance, the name coming from a seventh-grader from Virginia named Alexander Mather
SpaceX Starship Implodes During Test, Musk Hints Flex Tape Might Fix It
2 Mar 2020, 10:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / SpaceX's Starship prototype implodes on the launch pad in Boca Chica during a pressure test of liquid nitrogen, Elon Musk downplays the incident
Watch the Far Side of the Moon in 4K Detail as Seen by Apollo 13 Crew
27 Feb 2020, 14:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter beams back a video of the far side of the Moon as it unfolded before the eyes of the Apollo 13 astronauts
SpaceX Starlink to Help U.S. Air Force Shoot Down Cruise Missiles
26 Feb 2020, 15:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / U.S. Air Force live fire exercise with the Advanced Battle Management System to include the participation of SpaceX Starlink satellites
“Mad” Mike Hughes Dies in Homemade Rocket Launch Set to Prove the Earth Is Flat
24 Feb 2020, 10:38 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The infamous daredevil and flat-earther aimed to reach to the edge of space on a “shoe-string budget,” was killed after launch mishap, falling to his death
Virgin Spaceship Flies for Three Hours Attached to Carrier Plane
17 Feb 2020, 15:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Carrier plane VMS Eve helps the VSS Unity reach its new home in the New Mexico desert, the aptly named Spaceport America
Mars 2020 Rover to Shoot Ultra Hot Lasers Out of Its Head
11 Feb 2020, 10:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The SuperCam on the Mars 2020 rover will be used to vaporize the surface of Martian rocks in the search for signs of life
Billionaire Aborts Plan to Find Girlfriend to Fly With Him to the Moon
30 Jan 2020, 14:13 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / First space tourist Yusaku Maezawa pulls out of planned reality show that would have helped him find a “life partner” in time for the SpaceX launch
This Is How Crew Dragon’s Launch Looks Like in Ultra-Zoom, Slow-Motion Video
27 Jan 2020, 14:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Last week's Crew Dragon in-flight abort test was captured by the team at Cosmic Perspective in slow motion and with the equivalent of a 5,000 mm zoom lens
Vote Your Favorite 2020 Mars Rover Name from This List of Final 9
22 Jan 2020, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The nine names for the rover are Endurance, Tenacity, Promise, Perseverance, Vision, Clarity, Ingenuity, Fortitude, and Courage
This Is How the Internet Makes Fun of the US Space Force Uniform
20 Jan 2020, 14:59 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Officials say they’re saving money by using the current Army uniforms for the new one, but the Internet is not buying it: who needs camouflage in space?
From Dusty to Archimedes, These Are the Final 155 Names for the Mars 2020 Rover
16 Jan 2020, 10:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Out of 28,000 submissions, these are the final 155 names for the 2020 Mars rover. They include Propulsion Major Crater, Reconnoiter, or Asteria Morpheus
First Space Tourist Is Looking for a Girlfriend to Accompany Him to the Moon
13 Jan 2020, 12:50 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will fly to the Moon with SpaceX and he doesn’t want to go alone. His quest for love will be documented on a reality show
Second Virgin Spaceship Can Now Carry Its Own Weight
9 Jan 2020, 16:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The yet unnamed craft deployed its main landing gear for the first time and the ship is now capable of supporting its own weight