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The Balloon Space Flight Competition Is On: Halo Space Has Entered the Chat
The Balloon Space Flight Competition Is On: Halo Space Has Entered the Chat

25 Oct 2022, 06:10 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Space tourism should be affordable, widely accessible and, just as important, non-polluting: new company aims to check all three boxes as early as 2025

 
World’s First Space Tourist, Billionaire Dennis Tito, Buys 2 Seats on SpaceX’s Starship
World’s First Space Tourist, Billionaire Dennis Tito, Buys 2 Seats on SpaceX’s Starship

13 Oct 2022, 06:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Dennis and Akiko Tito will become the first couple to do a lunar flyby on the second manned, private mission of the Starship rocket

 
William Shatner Explains Why Space Tourism Matters in Ways Jeff Bezos Never Could
William Shatner Explains Why Space Tourism Matters in Ways Jeff Bezos Never Could

10 Oct 2022, 06:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In his new book, the Star Trek actor explains how his record-breaking flight on the second Blue Origin flight filled him with terrible sadness and hopelessness

 
Artemis I's SLS Rocket Reverses Back to World's Largest Garage, Braces for Hurricane Ian
Artemis I's SLS Rocket Reverses Back to World's Largest Garage, Braces for Hurricane Ian

27 Sep 2022, 03:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Since August 17th, the SLS booster rocket and its payload of a single Orion Command Capsule with its ESA Service Module have sat at KSC's Launch Complex 39B.

 
Hilton Is Building the First Space Hotel for Astronauts on Starlab
Hilton Is Building the First Space Hotel for Astronauts on Starlab

23 Sep 2022, 04:50 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Hilton Hotels and Voyager are working on the hotel suites on Starlab, to “reimagine the human experience in space” for comfortable, extended stays

 
Elon Musk Talks to Jay Leno About His Plans to Colonize Mars, Shows Him the Rockets
Elon Musk Talks to Jay Leno About His Plans to Colonize Mars, Shows Him the Rockets

18 Sep 2022, 09:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Jay Leno gets an exclusive tour of Starbase, chats with Elon about why space exploration needs revolutionizing and man to become an interplanetary species

 
A Real Martian House Lands on Earth, Shows a Glimpse Into a Possible Martian Future
A Real Martian House Lands on Earth, Shows a Glimpse Into a Possible Martian Future

28 Aug 2022, 00:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Multidisciplinary art project aims to serve as research platform for a future habitat on Mars, where resources are scarce and conditions are harsh

 
Learn About the Artemis I Mission With This Unique LEGO Interactive Experience
Learn About the Artemis I Mission With This Unique LEGO Interactive Experience

27 Aug 2022, 21:40 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / NASA teamed up with LEGO for the Artemis I mission with an online experience in which everyone can participate and learn about the mission

 
Nichelle Nichols’ Ashes Blasted Into Space, So Lt. Uhura Will Always Be Among the Stars
Nichelle Nichols’ Ashes Blasted Into Space, So Lt. Uhura Will Always Be Among the Stars

26 Aug 2022, 04:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The son of the late Star Trek actress agrees to donate part of her ashes for Celestis’ “graveyard orbit” around sun dedicated to Star Trek legends

 
Journey Through the Stars in Search for a New Home for Humanity in IXION
Journey Through the Stars in Search for a New Home for Humanity in IXION

24 Aug 2022, 18:37 UTC · By: Cosmin Vasile / The epic sci-fi city builder is coming to PC in November, a pleasant surprise considering the game has only been revealed last year

 
Voyager 2 Turns 45, Let's Take This Occasion To Celebrate Space Exploration
Voyager 2 Turns 45, Let's Take This Occasion To Celebrate Space Exploration

21 Aug 2022, 09:48 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / Yesterday we celebrated 45 since August 20th, 1977, the launch of Voyager 2, the spacecraft that ventured past our Solar System

 
Robotics Will Make Our Lives Easier, But Will It Also Bring Us the Moon?
Robotics Will Make Our Lives Easier, But Will It Also Bring Us the Moon?

28 Jul 2022, 07:59 UTC · By: Camelia Bistrae / Exchange of experience and knowledge between Hyundai and Kia meant to conquer new places in the Universe, but also in robotics and mobility on Earth.

 
Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 Jacket Is Officially the Most Expensive Space-Flown Memorabilia
Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 Jacket Is Officially the Most Expensive Space-Flown Memorabilia

27 Jul 2022, 08:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Southeby’s Buzz Aldrin: American Icon auction closed at $8.2 million, with the inflight jacket going for $2.7 million to a mystery buyer on the phone

 
Goodyear and Lockheed Martin Join Forces To Commercialize Lunar Mobility
Goodyear and Lockheed Martin Join Forces To Commercialize Lunar Mobility

22 Jul 2022, 07:30 UTC · By: Alexandru Boghiu / It’s been more than 50 years since Goodyear’s non-pneumatic XLTs (Experimental Lunar Tires) left their mark on the moon’s surface during the Apollo 14 mission

 
The Chainsmokers Is the First Musical Act to Perform at the Edge of Space
The Chainsmokers Is the First Musical Act to Perform at the Edge of Space

21 Jul 2022, 07:06 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / World View announces The Chainsmokers live concert up in their space balloon, on the first round of flights taking place in 2024

 
Jeff Koons’ Moon Phases Sculptures Sell for $2 Million Apiece, Are Headed for the Moon
Jeff Koons’ Moon Phases Sculptures Sell for $2 Million Apiece, Are Headed for the Moon

20 Jun 2022, 05:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Each Moon Phases sculpture of the 125-unit collection comes with an NFT and a physical counterpart for the one that will be planted on the Moon later this year

 
Apple Confirms GRID Legends and No Man’s Sky Are Coming to Mac and iPad
Apple Confirms GRID Legends and No Man’s Sky Are Coming to Mac and iPad

6 Jun 2022, 21:24 UTC · By: Cosmin Vasile / Without actually improving the power of its chipsets too much, Apple's new macOS Ventura will be able to run some of the most demanding triple A games

 
NASA's Space Launch System Almost Never Got Off the Ground, Here's Its Wild Story
NASA's Space Launch System Almost Never Got Off the Ground, Here's Its Wild Story

2 Jun 2022, 06:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Announced in 2017, the Artemis Program is an initiative rewriting the playbook for manned beyond Earth exploration. But it nearly never happened at all.

 
Man Who Flew a Patio Umbrella Aims to Become ISS Astronaut
Man Who Flew a Patio Umbrella Aims to Become ISS Astronaut

28 May 2022, 04:59 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In 2019, Sadik Kocadalli became an internet star with the moniker “Turkey’s first astronaut.” Today, he hopes for a chance to actually become one

 
No Man's Sky Brings Space Whales in a Groundhog Day Themed Expedition
No Man's Sky Brings Space Whales in a Groundhog Day Themed Expedition

25 May 2022, 16:22 UTC · By: Cosmin Vasile / A story-driven adventure that ends in about six weeks puts players inside a time loop from which they must escape by discovering Memory Fragments