Pioneering plan for low cost satellite launches revealed A Swiss firm has unveiled radical plans to launch a space shuttle from the top of an Airbus passenger jet. Swiss Space Systems says t... Read more
Something useful for America’s underemployed space agency to do GEOGRAPHY matters. In 1908 a rock the size of a city block hit the Earth’s atmosphere at 15km (9 miles) a second. The e... Read more
The current U.S. space suit used by NASA is a dinosaur. Designed in 1992, it was only ever intended to be used by crews aboard the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS). Th... Read more
Virgin could enable up to 600 experimental payloads per flight Although Virgin Galactic is generally known as a space tourism company, it sees research experiments as a future mission segmen... Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new program in collaboration with NASA that is sure to intrigue Trekkieseverywhere. Called the 100-Year Starship Study, it’s desi... Read more
Until now the only space vehicle capable of returning to Earth – in a controlled manner anyway – was the Space Shuttle. With that craft scheduled to be retired from service next... Read more