For about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, American astronaut Gus Grissom felt at the top of the world – and indeed…
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In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five…
Reports this week suggest a near-collision between an Australian satellite and a suspected Chinese military satellite. Meanwhile, earlier this month, the US…
Earlier this week Roscomsos, the Russian space agency, performed the latest of many (so many) International Space Station (ISS) resupply…
The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody…
The BOLT II hypersonic flight experiment will launch tonight from NASA’s Wallops Test Flight Facility in Virginia. Hypersonic vehicles, which can fly…
If the United Launch Alliance (ULA) has to retire the Atlas V rocket, then it’s going out on a good…
Space travel is all about momentum. Rockets turn their fuel into momentum that carries people, satellites and science itself forward into space.…
We’re quite used to seeing things blast off from Earth en route to the International Space Station (ISS). We’re a…
Space travel is an interesting business. It’s like flying, except you don’t get to use wings, and there’s a constant…