Virgin Galactic has finally opened ticket sales for its 90-minute suborbital spaceflight to the public. Not yet for the general public though as tickets will cost you $450,000 each, with an initial $150,000 deposit (of which $25,000 is non-refundable). The company aims to sell 1,000 tickets...
Katy Perry and Alesso’s music video for their new single “When I’m Gone,” premiered on January 11th, features cameos from SpaceX’s Starship rockets and Boston Dynamic’s robodog. While the whole sports a futuristic theme, the scene in question has Katy Perry speaking on a payphone with...
NASA is one giant step closer to getting the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) fully operational. The agency successfully unfolded JWST’s final gold-coated mirror wing on Saturday, ending its two-week-long deployments of 50 major features and one of the riskiest and most challenging maneuvers in space. The mission crew...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has made history by flying into the Sun’s corona (upper atmosphere), making it the first time humanity has ‘touched’ the sun. Three years after its launch in 2018 and after five Venus flybys, the spacecraft actually accomplished this feat in April, but it took...
Recent satellite photos from Colorado-based Maxar Technologies show that China has built mock-ups of U.S. Navy ships in the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang, northwest China. The images, dated from Sunday, reveal the outline of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer sitting on a railway track in the...
William Shatner, best known for his role in the Star Trek TV and film series as Captain James T. Kirk, will be traveling to space tomorrow on Blue Origin’s second touristic flight. At the age of 90, he will soon become the oldest person who’s ever flown to...
