space
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo First Spaceflight
After watching VSS Unity, the first Spaceship built for regular passenger service soar into Space, Richard pens a heartfelt letter to his grandchildren. “I used to think of Space as a destination, but now I realize its journey with some amazing milestones along the way. Today we pass the most significant of them all as…
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How SpaceX, Blue Origin, And Virgin Galactic Plan On Taking You To Space
Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson all want to send private citizens to space. Their respective companies, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic are dedicated to making space travel and space tourism more accessible. Here’s how they plan to do it.
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Lockheed Martin reveals its plan to send humans to Mars
Lockheed Martin and NASA have teamed up. Together, the 2 companies aim to build Mars Base Camp, the first Mars space station.
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Why you can’t fly a plane to space
Why can’t you fly a plane to space? Turns out, you couldn’t even make it halfway. Part of the problem is Earth’s gravity. You need to escape it in order to reach space.
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Boeing Begins a New Era in Space
We are at the edge of a new era in human spaceflight. Boeings CST-100 Starliner, set to launch in 2018, will be one of the first commercial space capsules to take people to and from low-Earth orbit. Will you be a future passenger?
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Boeing X-37B lands after two years in orbit
On May 7, the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida got a loud surprise. One of the Air Force’s two secret X-37B space planes announced its re-entry to Earth with a loud sonic boom. The plane is part of the Air Force’s X-37 program. Not much is known about this program except that the…
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How to Land the Space Shuttle… from Space
Presented on Halloween (October 31st) at Stack Overflow’s 2016 Remote Meetup in Philadelphia. If you want to try landing the shuttle for yourself for fun, try F-Sim http://www.f-sim.com/
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Elevating Unity – Episode 2: Glide Flight
On December 3, 2016, our new SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, flew freely for the first time. This important test marks the first time that a vehicle built by our manufacturing organization, The Spaceship Company, has flown fully under its own control. In this video, Lead Test Pilot, Mark “Forger” Stucky, explains what it’s like flying VSS…
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Was the Space Shuttle Doomed From the Beginning?
by Curious Droid When the space shuttle was announced in 1972 it was seen as the space vehicle to make low earth orbit space travel and living in space an everyday reality. But in hindsight many now believe that it was a failed project that was hamstrung by lack of funding and interest by government…
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Ignition – The Space Shuttle Orbiter
Boeing and the space shuttle program inspired the world to wonder just how far space travel would go.
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Boeing Partners for Genes in Space Competition
In 2015, 17-year-old Anna-Sophia Boguraev from Bedford, New York, won the inaugural Genes in Space competition. Boguraev’s experiment arrived at the International Space Station April 10, 2016, following an April 8 launch from Kennedy Space Center. Check out the video for more on Anna-Sophia’s story. To learn more about Genes in Space: http://www.genesinspace.org/
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Tasting Astronaut Food: Inside NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory
Tasting Astronaut Food: Inside NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory Photos of all the food we tasted at NASA here (space smoothies!): http://www.tested.com/science/space/4… How does the dining experience in space compare to that on Earth? We visited NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to learn about the history of space…