Yesterday, the National Reconnaissance Office lifted a bit of the veil on its latest project: a spy satellite constellation resulting from a...
[MEDIA] SpaceX has two Starlink launches planned over the next two days out of Cape Canaveral. The first will be this afternoon at 5:26 EDT from...
72 years ago today, Bell Aircraft made a proposal to the NACA: A bomber-missile, or BoMi. The idea for the BoMi was for a lifting body to be...
[IMG] Happy 73rd birthday to NASA astronaut Marsha Ivins. Born in Baltimore, but raised in suburban Philly, she graduated with a bachelor's in...
76 years ago today, the Soviet Union decreed a beginning to production of the R-1 and R-2 ballistic missiles. The R-1 was essentially the Soviet...
49 years ago today, a Space Test Program mission referred to as P72-2 was launched atop an Atlas E/F rocket from Pad 3W, Vandenberg AFB. There...
The Starliner Crewed Flight Test has had a couple slight schedule slips recently, but is currently penned in for Monday evening, May 6, at 10:34pm...
You'd think things would be jubilant on Yuri's Night. It wasn't so 57 years ago today. The scene was described as chaos. Instead of celebrating,...
44 years ago today, Soyuz 35 was launched atop a Soyuz-U rocket from Pad 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome. Aboard for launch was rookie commander Leonid...
[IMG] 54 years ago today, Nimbus 4 was launched atop a Thorad-Agena rocket from Pad 2E, Vandenberg AFB. The fifth planned satellite in the...
[ATTACH] NASA is slowly trying to figure out what the **** happened to Voyager 1 recently. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working on ways to...
[MEDIA] SpaceX is currently aiming for SpaceX Flight 4 next month. These nomenclature changes always seem to be woefully behind. The ramp-up on...
I know I mentioned I'd already completed all these bios before. But this was coupled to another post, and I figured out how to free it without...
Starlink launches are currently planned from Vandenberg at 10:25pm EDT tomorrow night, and from Cape Canaveral at 2:14am EDT Friday morning. The...
55 years ago today, the Soviet space program attempted to launch a probe to Mars. Their Mars-2M probes were very ambitious. They had a mass of...
[MEDIA] This afternoon at 1:40pm EDT, a Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Pad 37B, Cape Canaveral, with an Orion SIGINT satellite...
[MEDIA] NASA has chosen three experiments to be deployed during the lunar surface during the landing of Artemis 3. So why not call it the Artemis...
[IMG] 60 years ago today, Boeing received clearance to begin construction of the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft. The Lunar Orbiter probes were to be...
[MEDIA] A Dragon 2 spacecraft has gone vertical at Pad 40, Cape Canaveral, for the first time. The side hatch of the new Dragon 2 permitted Cargo...
55 years ago today, four Air Force technology demonstration satellites were launched atop an Atlas E/F rocket from Pad 576A, Vandenberg AFB. The...
[MEDIA] Super Heavy Booster 10 and Starship SN 28 had a spectacular flight yesterday morning. After a series of delays due to wayward boats, it...
[MEDIA] Duncan McGuire has been called up for training camp with the United States men's Olympic soccer team. With the age requirements for the...
[MEDIA] Japan's private KAIROS rocket launched as planned at the opening of the window last night at 10:01pm EDT. It exploded seven seconds after...
[MEDIA] Crew Dragon Endurance splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off Pensacola at 5:47am this morning. The splashdown was picture-perfect...in...
66 years ago today, the U.S. Air Force formed a working conference on the Man in Space Soonest program in Los Angeles. Gen. Bernard Schriever...