Artemis Accords: An Alliance to Take the World, Not Just the U.S., to the Moon and Beyond
23 Oct 2022, 00:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / These are the Artemis Accords, and they're here to ensure a geopolitically divided Moon, as feared by countless futurist philosophers, doesn't come to pass.
Famous Futurist Author Claims Interstellar Space Probes Aren't As Impossible as They Sound
22 Oct 2022, 01:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Considering this is legitimate rocket science, we're going to need some help explaining some of the more "practical" ideas for interstellar probes.
Space Shuttle vs Dream Chaser: Can This Pint Sized Space Plane Really Replace an Icon?
21 Oct 2022, 23:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Thanks to the Sierra Nevada and its Sierra Space sub-division, the era of the reusable space plane is not at an end. If anything, it's only getting started.
NASA Orders Three More Lockheed Martin Orion Spacecraft, Artemis I Still Marooned on Earth
21 Oct 2022, 19:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Under the umbrella program called the Orion Production and Operations Contract (OPOC), each Orion capsule's hardware will be fine-tuned wherever possible
NASA's James Webb Telescope Just Brought the Iconic Pillars of Creation into 4K
21 Oct 2022, 03:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With far more sophisticated infrared sensors operating in broad wavelengths from, the James Webb Space Telescope can see what Hubble could not.
NASA's NEOWISE Telescope Takes 12 Year Time Lapse of the Whole Cosmos, Mind Blowing Result
21 Oct 2022, 00:28 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Near Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) telescope operates remarkably different from other more famous space telescopes like Hubble
NASA Observed the Brightest Explosion in Recorded History, Details Inside
18 Oct 2022, 22:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's not often a flash of shockingly bright light, and energy suddenly pops up in the night sky so intense it mimics a star many times closer than it really is
NASA Claims the Sun is Having a Temper Tantrum, Solar Flared Eight Times in One Week
17 Oct 2022, 10:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As the Sun completes its rotation, swirling storms of plasma the size of planets can be seen hurdling away from its surface.
Russian Orbital Service Station: Russia's Defiant Successor to the ISS Launching in 2026
14 Oct 2022, 22:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Should Russia follow through with the plan to leave the International Space Station, all their energy will become devoted to their own space station.
NASA DART Asteroid Impactor Mission Massively Successful, Sped Up Minor Planet's Orbit
12 Oct 2022, 20:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Several missions that tried to either land on, impact, or return samples from these mysterious bodies failed and have always been fraught with difficulties.
NASA Supercomputer Theorizes the Moon May Have Formed in a Few Hours, Details Inside
7 Oct 2022, 21:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A team of scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center Durham University in the UK is applying some serious computing power towards simulating the Moon's birth.
STS-93: The Wild Story of the Space Shuttle Mission That Hauled the Heaviest Payload
4 Oct 2022, 20:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With 5,860 kg (12,930 lb) of mass at launch, CXO was packed to the gills with sensors, solar arrays, and electrical generators.
Space Station Freedom: America's Idea For The World's Best Space Station Pre ISS
4 Oct 2022, 01:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It goes without saying that the ISS will never be the same when and if the Russians ever do follow through with their intentions to leave.
Sixty Years Ago Today, Wally Schirra Orbited Earth Six Times Aboard Mercury-Atlas 8
3 Oct 2022, 15:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Six adrenaline-fueled times, Mercury-Atlas 8 orbited the Earth with an apogee altitude of 285 kilometers. It helped prep flight hardware for trips to the Moon.
Artemis I's SLS Rocket Safe In VAB From Florida's Worst Superstorm, Here's What's Next
29 Sep 2022, 20:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At least from NASA's point of view, there's a sense that bringing Artemis I's 321-foot SLS rocket back to its gargantuan assembly building was a regroup.]
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.
Russia's Orel Spacecraft Aims to Challenge NASA's Orion to the Moon, They'll Need Luck
16 Sep 2022, 22:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the case of Russia, there are more than a few reasons that should be self-evident if you keep up with the news on why they struggle
Chinese Manned Lunar Program Will Challenge NASA's Artemis, Aims to Mine Moon Minerals
12 Sep 2022, 11:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's all too easy to assume this slew of Chinese Lunar probe missions is indicative of a formal announcement of a state-run manned Lunar landing program
Interview: Every Kilo Counts, Why the ESA's Service Module Is the Brains Behind Artemis
2 Sep 2022, 20:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If the Lockheed Martin Orion is at the heart of Artemis, and the SLS rocket is the soul, think of the European Service Module as the brains of the operation.
Artemis I is Probably Go for Launch Tomorrow, NASA Press Conference Details
2 Sep 2022, 17:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A series of mechanical anomalies were responsible for the first scrubbed launch attempt on Monday. A spot of bad weather did little to help matters.