Blue Origin today successfully flew a New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket vehicle to over 100 km altitude. There were eight research experiments aboard the capsule, which separated from the booster after its engine ended its burn. The booster made a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A release from Virgin Galactic about today’s SpaceShipTwo spaceflight: [ Update: A new video from the flight: ] Richard Branson Welcomes Astronauts Home from Virgin Galactic’s Historic First Spaceflight History has been made and a long-anticipated dream realised in Mojave, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The new company Decron Club will soon begin selling collectible coins made from metals flown in space: Rocket Launch Flight SL-11 leads to the Launching of the Opportunity to Touch Space with Your Own Hands On the day when the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The EXOS Aerospace reusable suborbital SARGE rocket launched successfully from Spaceport America on Saturday. (See earlier posting about the project.) The liftoff is at 20:15 in this video. See also the payload capsule returning via a ballute (half balloon, half parachute) between 29:37-30:05, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Purdue group has developed a simple box for grade school kids to fly experiments on suborbital spaceflights of the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket vehicle: Purdue School Launchboxes available to send school experiments into space Standing less than a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a brief video showing highlights of the Blue Origin‘s New Shepard flight on Wednesday: And this video shows some scenes from a pre-launch briefing: An inside look at the Flight Readiness Review leading up to a successful Mission […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A SpaceX Dragon Cargo spaceship will depart from the ISS on Saturday morning. The Dragon was launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral on April 2 and berthed to the station April 4th. The vehicle delivered over 2.5 mT of supplies, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the first of a new special TMRO.tv series focused on space topics: Keeping fit in the cosmos – Experiment 01.01 – TMRO Welcome to the first official episode of TMRO:Science! Hosted by Lisa Stojanovski, Athena Brensberger and Jade Kim, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station: And a video about a muscle tissue experiment on the ISS: Plus a couple of Time-Lapse Videos from NASA’s Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A contest opens for students to win an opportunity to send an experiment to the International Space Station: CASIS and Marvel Entertainment Unveil Guardians of the Galaxy Space Station Challenge — Challenge Allows Students Ages 13-18 to Submit Flight Concepts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some big commercial launch hardware has been on display this week: ** Elon Musk on Twitter posted photos of the first Falcon Heavy launcher in preparation in the hangar for a launch from Kennedy Space Center in January : ** […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This morning the SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle that launched on Friday from Cape Canaveral caught up with the International Space Station (ISS) and was captured by a robotic arm under the control of NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched a Dragon spacecraft into orbit this morning to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. The Dragon is carrying over 4,800 pounds (2177 kg) of research materials and equipment plus supplies for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Kickstarter has opened to back a program to let students run crystal and microbe growing experiments on the ground to compare with similar experiments on the International Space Station: Kickstarter for STEM Education Program in Space Announced Xtronaut, NanoRacks, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s Space to Ground report from NASA on news about the International Space Station: === For the kids, check out the International Space Station Activity Book (pdf). === A video about a miniature DNA sequencer used by NASA on the ISS: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ZERO-G sends the message below about university research projects flown on the companies Boeing 727 that provides periods of weightlessness by flying parabolic trajectories. ZERO-G Research Flights Advance Technology for Future Deep-Space Missions As Part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, released a video animation this week showing the New Glenn rocket, which they will start building next year at a factory currently in construction at Cape Canaveral. First flights are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, flew their New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket yesterday. The goal was to test the abort system for the crew capsule. At about 45 seconds after liftoff, the crew capsule […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new (and somewhat late) episode of NASA’s Space To Ground weekly report on recent activities related to the Int. Space Station:
Here is a video of the SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft leaving theInt. Space Station on Wednesday. The Dragon was launched to the ISS back on April 8th (see videos here). Later in the day the Dragon parachuted safely into the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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