SpaceX's SN10 Starship prototype reached an altitude of about 6 miles and landed back upright for the first time, but then exploded 8 minutes after the touchdown in their latest test flight on Wednesday. Two previous Starship prototypes, the SN8 and SN9, exploded during their landing attempts following high-altitude flight...
Virgin Group's US-based spaceflight company, Virgin Galactic, has announced that it delayed its space tourism flights that were expected to happen this year to early 2022. After the announcement, the company shares ($SPCE) fell 11.9% in trading. CEO Michael Colglazier said that Virgin Galactic’s next rocket-powered test flight...
NASA has released the first-ever audio recording taken on the surface of Mars via one of the two microphones of its Perseverance rover. Ten seconds into the linked [https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25629/nasas-perseverance-rover-microphone-captures-sounds-from-mars/] filtered audio recording (without rover noise), you can hear a Martian breeze. This is the...
NASA is handing out Fitbit devices to 1,000 employees, including 150 astronauts, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 across its facilities. The wrist devices can track several key health metrics like body temperature and resting heart rate, which can help NASA detect a potential outbreak before symptoms emerge. Insiders:...
NASA has awarded SpaceX a $331.8 million contract to take the first two parts of its Gateway space station to space, which will be orbiting the moon as part of the Artemis program that aims to establish a permanent human presence in space. NASA plans to send a man...
> If civilization can journey among the stars, we better have conquered childhood cancer along the way. - Jared Isaacman Jared Isaacman, the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, has chartered a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for a 3-4 day trip to the International Space Station in October. Marking the world's...
