Here’s How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Crash from Last Week Looked Like
16 Jan 2015, 10:18 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When SpaceX launched its fifth official mission to resupply the International Space Station, last Saturday, everybody watched closely to see if Elon Musk’s plans on reusing the Falcon 9 works....
Nissan Teams Up With NASA for Autonomous Car Development
13 Jan 2015, 14:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The future is all about boring autonomous vehicles and you can’t do anything to stop that. Even the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) believes in it and teamed up with Nissa...
NASA’s Horizons Spacecraft Waking Up To Meet Pluto and Make History
19 Nov 2014, 16:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Eight years ago, the Atlas V rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the New Horizons spacecraft on top to launch it in a 9.5 year mission to reach Pluto, the smallest, furthest &ldqu...
NASA Testing High-Tech Shapeshifting Aircraft Wings
11 Nov 2014, 10:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Down on the roads, we’re trying to make our cars as green as ever using hybrid or electric powertrains, sleek aerodynamics and ecological manufacturing processes. But let’s not forget ab...
Secret X-37B Unmanned Space Plane Lands After 673 Days on Orbit
22 Oct 2014, 14:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / What’s 9-meter long, looks like NASA’s space shuttle, has no man onboard and flies for almost two years? Yep, it’s the US X-37B space plane which just landed after completing a god...
NASA’s MAVEN Satellite Sends First Pictures form Mars
26 Sep 2014, 12:50 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / After a 10 moth-travel in space, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) spacecraft arrived at the Red Planet Sunday night. Two days later, the Indian Mangalyaan probe also arrived. T...
Boeing and SpaceX Win the $6.8 Billion Race for NASA's Flights
17 Sep 2014, 14:23 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / After a pretty tight competition, NASA has decided that Boeing and Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be the companies to develop the agency’s future two-human spaceflight vehicles. Boeing has won ...
Astronaut Reid Wiseman Shows Amazing Footage of Earth’s Storms
4 Jul 2014, 12:54 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Remember that NASA astronaut to broadcast the world’s first Twitter Vine with a 6-second never-setting sun time-lapse? Well, Ride Wiseman recently went into a social media spree posting severa...
First Vine Video Sent from Outer Space Is Amazing
10 Jun 2014, 10:08 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman has just made the first step of Vine video-sharing into the final frontier, posting a 6-second time-lapse clip. The beautiful Vine shows a never-setting sun from 240 mile...
Russia’s Plans for 2017 Space Tourism: Trips around the Moon with Soyuz
5 Jun 2014, 11:58 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / While NASA scheduled to launch the first American-made spacecraft in 2017 and Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk just unveiling the Dragon V2 shuttle, it seems Russia won’t accept being left behind. ...
Ford Racing School Renews Agreement with NASA
11 Feb 2014, 12:41 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Ford Racing School will remain the official driving school of the National Auto Sport Association for another year, the NASA announced today, adding that its members will continue to benefit conting...
Agent 47’s Harbinger X2 Mustang Lapping Laguna Seca
10 Jul 2013, 09:51 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Back in May we were telling you that Agent 47 is working on preparing a 1969 Ford Mustang for NASA’s American Iron racing series. The guys started the whole thing with a brand-new Ford Racing ...
Curiosity Mars Rover Ready for First Soil Sample
9 Oct 2012, 13:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Scooping up some dirt may seen like a straightforward kind of thing, but when everything is done remotely, from millions of kilometers away, things get a bit tricky, and even the most basic of tasks...
Curiosity Mars Rover Sends Back First Color Pictures!
10 Aug 2012, 09:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It’s been a full five days since NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover landed on the Red Planet’s surface. At first, it sent a few low resolution black and whilte pictures, but now the rover...
What Happened to the Old Dream Cars?
15 Jul 2012, 17:54 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Do you know those old cars with huge vertical wings and conical taillights at the back? Stupid aren’t they, looking like combinations between stingrays and flying saucers. I like muscle cars j...
Endeavour Lands for the Last Time
1 Jun 2011, 09:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the second time in less than half a year, a space shuttle has landed on the tarmac of the Kennedy Space Center for the last time. The second to last space shuttle of the NASA manned space progra...
Curiosity to Send Back Color Photos of Mars
1 Jun 2011, 05:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Finally, the entire world will know whether the Red Planet is indeed red. NASA's next vehicle on Mars, rover Curiosity, is equipped with cameras that, unlike the ones fitted on the previous two...
Shuttle Atlantis Heads for the Launch Pad
31 May 2011, 12:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As its sister space shuttle Endeavour is circling the Earth in preparation for its final landing (which will take place on Wednesday), the last of the breed of shuttles, the Atlantis, is taking a ve...
Lost in Space: NASA Gives Up on Mars Rover Spirit
25 May 2011, 07:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Another one of humanity's most interesting vehicles has been deemed lost to the adversities of space and other planets. After loosing contact with Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on March 22, 201...
Off-Roading on the Moon with the SPR
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Tudor Raiciu / While not exactly your typical off-road vehicle, NASA's new lunar rover is certainly a head-turner. In case the sci-fi design doesn't tell you much about this prototype, the space agency i...