Space exploration has become a huge topic in recent years. However, growing concerns for the environment and space travel have continued as space launches increase. Here is everything you need to know about space travel and it’s impacts on the planet.
Tag: Space
Jeff Bezos is Going to Space on Blue Origin’s First Human Flight in July
Amazon billionaire, Jeff Bezos is going to space on Blue Origins first human flight this summer! Not only is Bezos heading to outer space, he will be accompanied by his brother, Mark. Here is everything we know so far!
NASA Detects Deep Space ‘Hum’ 14 Billion Miles From Earth
Voyager 1 spacecraft has detected a deep space hum from 14 billion miles away. Instruments on the spacecraft have uncovered a “constant drone of interstellar gas”.
SpaceX Joins Boeing In Receiving NASA Contract To Launch Humans Into Space
SpaceX, the privately held rocket company owned and run by technology kingpin Elon Musk, has reason to celebrate. NASA has finally given the company clearance to carry United States astronauts to the International Space Station […]
China Could Soon Surpass The United States In This Critical Military Field
China has recently tested a new missile that is capable of destroying satellites of the United States. The country has been largely working to increase its arsenal of weapons for space warfare. On October 30th, […]
Russia Is Putting Forth Plans To Launch Monkeys To Mars And Women To The Moon
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has announced that it will send a team of trained monkeys to Mars in 2017 and send a crew comprised exclusively of women to the Moon in 2029. Roscosmos recently informed […]
This Company Will Take You To The Edge Of Space In A Balloon-Carried Pod
The American near-space company World View Enterprises has managed to successfully test fly a one-tenth scale model of its giant balloon-carried passenger pod. The company believes that it will have a full version ready to […]
Watch Worn On Apollo Moon Landing Fetches A Stunning $1.6 Million At Auction
The highest price ever paid for astronaut-owned memorabilia was seen this week when a Florida businessman purchased the Bulova-made wristwatch of Apollo astronaut Dave R. Scott for $1.6 million at a Boston auction house. Scott […]
This Monday Americans Will See A Spectacular ‘Blood Moon’ For The First Time In 33 Years
On Sunday September 27th the coupling of a lunar eclipse with a supermoon event will take place. This coincidence is somewhat rare, with the previous one having occurred in 1982, causing some to fear the […]
NASA Gives Manned Mars Mission A New Official Timeline
The long dreamed of trip to Mars by American astronauts has been given a timeline with NASA recently announcing that they have finished a thorough review of the planned mission, and everything is going according […]
China Achieves Major Space Milestone By Developing Clean Rocket
Space travel is the latest industry to embrace the green movement, as China has launched a rocket using fuel that is free of both pollution and toxins. The country used the Long March 6, currently […]
New Study Finds Advanced Alien Life Likely Isn’t Present Anywhere Near Earth
Astronomers now have a new tool to find advanced alien civilizations, as sensitive set of telescopes that enable astronomers to detect the waste heat that would be expected to be produced by any advanced civilization. […]
Amazon Billionaire Bezos Makes Major Rocket Investment In Florida
The private space travel company Blue Origin, backed by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, will reportedly invest $200 million in Florida in order to make the state the basis of its operations. The expansion by the […]
NASA’s Pluto Probe Transmits Stunning Photos Of An Icy Netherworld
After the successful approach to Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft this July, the first high-resolution images of the icy planet have finally been received. The diverse nature of the Plutonian landscape has resulted in […]
China Is Breaking International Conventions And Creating A Special Army Division Dedicated To Space War
Once seen as science fiction, the concept of space wars is becomingly altogether real. As more and more satellites are launched into space and as countries realize the vulnerability of those satellites, militaries across the […]
Move Over Rover, NASA’s Working On A Radical Space Exploring Hedgehog
Stanford’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in collaboration with MIT have conceived of a new means of asteroid exploration, modeled after a Hedgehog. The prototype robot does not need wheels, legs, or conventional means of locomotion. […]
Heavyweight Space Contractors Team Up With Blue Origin To Fight Threat Posed By SpaceX
The U.S. military’s largest supplier of rockets, United Launch Alliance (ULA), announced on Thursday the acceleration of their work with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ space firm Blue Origin. The two companies had previously agreed to […]
SpaceX Will Return To Space With An Upgraded Version Of Its Falcon 9 Rocket
SpaceX, the privately held rocket company owned and by technology guru Elon Musk, plans to return its Falcon 9 rocket to flight in a few months with the launch of an upgraded Falcon 9, sometimes […]
NASA Chief Calls Out Congress For Bashing Russia Yet Forcing NASA To Pay Millions For Rides Into Space
While congress and the Obama administration talk tough about Russia and impose a wide range of sanctions on leader Vladimir Putin and his inner cadre, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden this week called out American politicians […]
India Joins Elite Club Of Indigenous Rocket Engine Producers With Successful Satellite Launch
India has once again demonstrated it is one of the heavy hitters in the fields of space exploration and communications with the successful launch of the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) D6 carrying the country’s […]
Rocket Crashing Into Chinese House Underscores How Crowded Space Is Becoming
Residents of a house in Ankang city, located in the Shaanxi province of China, were shocked Thursday morning after a falling rocket motor crashed through their roof. The wreckage fell through the house at approximately […]
Buzz Aldrin, The Second Man To Walk On The Moon, Is Getting Serious About Colonizing Mars
The second man to land on the moon is teaming up with Florida Institute of Technology on a serious project to colonize Mars within 25 years. A Mars colonization would involve building giant space ships […]
For The Price Of An Earthly Funeral You Can Now Be Buried On The Moon
“Imagine an everlasting memorial where family and friends can commemorate their departed loved ones anytime and anywhere. Instead of looking down upon the earth in reminiscence, we can raise our eyes to the eternal wonders […]
Russia Just Unveiled Its Plans For A New Reusable Space Plane
The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, a spacecraft and rocket maker based in Moscow, intends to restore the former Soviet Union’s winged space shuttle program, referred to as Buran. Established in 1974, Buran […]
Hibernation Sleep Therapy May Soon Be Headed To A Spa Near You
Long duration cryogenic slumber or hibernation may be helpful for space trips, but as NASA has lost interest in the project, earthbound applications may be a more viable path to market. NASA intends to make […]
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 […]
NASA Throws Cold Water On Social Media Astroid Rumor
In response to rumors rampantly spreading across the Internet, NASA issued a statement on Friday that planet Earth is indeed safe for the foreseeable future – at least from asteroid or meteor destruction. Recently, doomsday […]
Mars Rover’s Selfie Shows Hard Working Robot Is Beginning To Show Its Age
The Mars exploring, miniature laboratory known as the Curiosity rover landed on Mars in 2012 and has been working hard ever since collecting samples and taking selfies to send back to NASA engineers. Earlier this […]
Lack Of Funding Means NASA Must Now Scavenge Museum Pieces For Spare Parts
Like most United States government agencies, NASA is facing major budget cutbacks. That means the agency has to get creative in finding ways to continue developing America’s world leading space program. One way of doing […]
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 […]