Two giants of the defense industry, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, are ganging up against competitor Northrop Grumman, saying that the U.S. Air Force’s $80 billion decision to buy new stealth bombers from the company is […]
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Six Astronauts Are About To Be Locked In An Isolation Bubble For 365 Days To Help NASA Prepare For Mars
This Friday a team of six scientists will lock themselves in a 1,700 square foot bubble and won’t emerge for a full year. The experiment, known as Mission IV, is the fourth in the HI-SEA […]
The Pentagon Just Approved A Radical Space Plane That Can Launch 10 Times In 10 Days
America is getting back in the space plane business after it recently emerged that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program has completed the first stage of its design competition and […]
SpaceX Delays Heavy Rocket Until 2016 In Wake Of Launch Failure
Elon Musk, SpaceX chief, announced that the company will delay the launch of their new rocket that is supposed to be the most powerful in the world. The news came during a briefing given by […]
Senate Votes To Keep Relying On Russian Space Transport, Give Massive Pork To Boeing And Lockheed
While NASA, our national space agency, continues to perform beautifully the pigs in congress continue to play hard nosed politics with funding for the research agency. The latest disgrace comes from the Senate Appropriations Committee, […]