Feb 20
Maybe it’s been the exciting, messiah-like death-and-rebirth of China’s lunar rover
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Jan 27
Things aren’t going so swell for China’s lunar rover. About halfway into its three-month mission to study potential nuclear launch sites explore the moon for science, the Yutu rover is suffering from a possibly fatal breakdown. And the way the Chinese state news agency broke this to the people is… well, different.
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Dec 22
NASA’s Curiosity rover has been on Mars for over a year now, and in the time has traversed nearly three miles. While its wheels are made of high-grade aluminum, they’re not strong enough to last forever. NASA announced this week it was taking an extra-long look at the wheels, and boy are they in rough shape.
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Oct 19
Americans tend to talk a lot about the Space Race and how we made it to the Moon and we were first and no one else was second because we are the best. It’s put into context by the fact that the Soviet satellite Sputnik was the first in space, but by the time we get around to discussing the moon landings no one mentions why. And this enormous, absolutely insane rocket is the reason.
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Oct 18
First off, two things: the movie Gravity is likely the most realistic space travel-based movie ever made, and I’m about to spoil the crap out of it by revealing one huge flaw. So, if you don’t like spoiled movie, you may want to leave. Okay, there’s your fair warning. Everyone else, come along!
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Sep 05
Airports? Please. Those are soooo 20th century. The new millennium is all about spaceports, and if they look half as cool as these concept renderings for a possible Houston Spaceport, then we’ll be traveling to the stars in style.
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Aug 24
Last week’s test of an Orion space capsule
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Jul 21
Yesterday was the 44th anniversary
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