The Future of Spaceflight Will be Fraught With Danger, Humanity Shouldn't Shy Away
11 Feb 2023, 10:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The loss of Columbia ensured that the Space Shuttle program wasn't long for this world. By the early 2010s, the four shuttles that remained were retired.
20 Years Ago, Space Shuttle Columbia's Tragic Loss Changed Spaceflight Forever
31 Jan 2023, 21:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even beyond the unimaginable human loss on February 1st, 2003, the effects of the STS-107 mission affected how NASA operates today on a profound level.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Does Its Best Heavy Duty Pickup Truck Impression, Hauls 19 Tons to LEO
26 Jan 2023, 19:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Following a ten-minute delay, a Falcon 9 laden with upwards of 17.4 metric tons (19.4 tons) of Starlink satellites ready to transmit Wi-Fi to the masses.
NASA/DARPA Want to Test Nuclear Fission Engines by 2027, Can They Bring Us to Mars?
25 Jan 2023, 00:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If ludicrously powerful rocket engines are what you're after, science fiction tells us there's no better place to look than nuclear energy
We Need to Stop Treating Low Earth Orbit Like a Landfill, ESA Vows a Solution
22 Jan 2023, 18:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / "We want to establish a zero debris policy, which means if you bring a spacecraft into orbit, you have to remove it," Aschbacher declared.
This NASA Probe Snaps Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone, Just Tagged Another
12 Jan 2023, 20:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Of these thousands of exoplanets, only a little over a dozen are located in what we like to call the habitable zone. TESS is getting very good at finding them
This Man Put the Entire Soviet Space Program on His Back, He Deserves Our Respect
10 Jan 2023, 05:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The story of the life of Sergei Korolev is one that leaves a bitter aftertaste. But a life defined by a brilliant mind for engineering
An Ancient NASA Satellite Is Expected To Reenter Earth's Atmopshere
7 Jan 2023, 15:44 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / The ERBS is a veteran in space measurements that was released back in 1984 and its time has come to finally return from where it came, which is Earth
One of Artemis I’s Cube-Sat Missions Is in Deep Trouble, Time Running Out for Lunar Orbit
6 Jan 2023, 01:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Let's take a deep dive and find out why Artemis I's secondary mission is in serious jeopardy in the first place. It's not what you think.
Gilmour Space: The Aussie Team Ready to Make Satellite Launches Truly Affordable
5 Jan 2023, 22:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Should Gilmour's efforts succeed, space launch access for non-billion-dollar companies could be fast approaching sooner than you think.
Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7's Lunar Module Pilot Has Passed Away Aged 90
4 Jan 2023, 21:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / On behalf of autoevolution and the entire space junkie community, we offer the family and friends of Walter Cunningham our deepest condolences.
NASA Sounds Alarm on Chinese Moon Landing Ambitions, Could Claim Pieces for Themselves
3 Jan 2023, 00:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Less than two months after the first of NASA's Artemis missions completed what can be called a smashing success, NASA is whistling a different tune.
The Ins and Outs of Dragonfly: NASA's Incredible Plan to Put an Aerial Drone on Titan
30 Dec 2022, 00:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Say hello to Project Dragonfly, the remarkable attempt to place only the second-ever powered, heavier-than-air rotorcraft on the surface of another world.
NASA's $25.4 Billion Budget for 2023 May Sound Like a Lot, but It's Not
28 Dec 2022, 20:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In stark contrast to 2023's national defense budget totaling an eye-watering $857.9 billion, NASA's wound up receiving around $600 million less than proposed.
NASA and China May Dominate Mars, but the Soviets Are Still Kings of Venus, Here's Why
25 Dec 2022, 05:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If the Americans and Chinese basically have Mars all to themselves, the Russians, or should we say, the Soviets still dominate the exploration of Venus
Detailing the Life of InSight - Mars' Most Underappreciated Space Probe Lost Today
22 Dec 2022, 01:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In truth, the genesis of the InSight lander has its roots in NASA's previous Martian lander. This would, of course, be the Phoenix launched in 2008
Mars' First Powered Aircraft Aces 37th Flight, Stays Airborne for 55.2 Seconds
21 Dec 2022, 04:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Marking off a year of nothing but excellence from the Ingenuity Martian Helicopter, the historic aircraft completed its record 37th consecutive flight.
Elon Musk's Starlink Internet Nets One Millionth Subscriber, Dunks on the Haters
20 Dec 2022, 23:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With a base cost of $599 for all the hardware and $110 a month for internet service Starlink is perhaps the most successful Elon Musk venture outside of Tesla.
Los Alamos NERVA: The American Nuclear Engine That Could Have Taken Humans to Mars
18 Dec 2022, 16:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We don't blame you if you're shocked the United States wielded a nuclear spacecraft engine as far back as the 1960s. Or that hardly anyone remembers it.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Records Eerily Scary Martian Dust Devil, Sounds Earth-Like
14 Dec 2022, 18:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Here on Earth, dust devils can take shape anywhere a pocket of warm air rapidly rises through patches of cold air, thus creating a vortex