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XCOR engineers are hard at work assembling and testing critical components of the Lynx reusable launch vehicle. Photo Credit: XCOR Aerospace XCOR Aerospace, a spacecraft and rocket engineering company, is developing a new spacecraft that will take paying customers to the edge of space. The exciting suborbital vehicle is taking shape and meeting […] The Boeing Crew Space Transportation spacecraft, or CST-100 for short. Image Credits: Boeing / AmericaSpace / Mike Killian They say there is no substitute for experience, and when it comes to spaceflight there are few in the world that can match the proven expertise and decades of experience that Boeing brings to the […] 
SpaceShipTwo resting under the Mothership White Knight Two inside a hangar in Mojave,Ca. USA. Photo Credit: Virgin Galactic/Mark Greenberg MOJAVE, Calif. – (Feb. 27, 2012) Virgin Galactic LLC, the world’s first commercial spaceline, announced today that it has selectedNanoRacks LLC to construct a rack system to allow research payloads to fly to […] 
An Atlas 5 rocket launches NASA's JUNO spacecraft to Jupiter, as viewed from Playalinda Beach. Photo Credit: Mike Killian When it comes to actually viewing rockets thunder off to orbit – few places can match Florida’s Space Coast. Miles of beautiful, scenic beaches stretch out as far as the eye can see and […] Keith Colmer, a former U.S. Air Force test pilot, has been selected as a pilot for Virgin Galactic. Photo Credit: Virgin Galactic He has “The Right Stuff” – or at least Virgin Galactic thinks so. The NewSpace firm chose from a pool of hundreds of candidates, some of the greatest pilots the world […] A Dictionary of the Space Age is a great tool for space buffs that want to learn more about the inner workings of space flight. Image Credit: Book cover courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press. Shuttle photo courtesy of Alan Walters/awaltersphoto.com Yes, it is hard to mess up a simple dictionary, even one […] NASA has entered into an agreement with Virgin Galactic to fly experiments on board the company's SpaceShipTwo suborbital space plane. Photo Credit: Virgin Galactic/Mark Greenberg NASA has, on a number of occasions tapped the NewSpace firm Virgin Galactic to help the space agency accomplish its objectives – recently, it has done so again. […] Space tourism hasn’t turned-out to be the boom business, no pun intended, that it was once promised to be. Bigelow Aerospace laid-off its inflatable space habitat employees, a step reluctantly taken because the company felt that its BA-330, expected to launch in ready in 2014-2015, would be years ahead of commercial crew launchers […]
The aerospace industry is typically filled with engineers, scientists and pilots. Hardly the segment of the population that is subject to expounding on the virtues of their trade in prose or through some other format. That said, every once and a while, a campaign, image or video comes along […] Springer/Praxis is releaseing a second edition of "How Apollo Flew To The Moon" this summer. Image Credit: Spinger/Praxis There have been hundreds of books written regarding the Apollo Program, some of them have been overtly technical, others are more poetic (Norman Mailer’s A Fire on the Moon for example). The main problem with […] |
 Next Launch Landsat 9 on a Atlas V 401 rocket from Vandenberg AFB, CA scheduled for: 27 Sep 21 at 18:11 GMT 27 Sep 21 at 11:11am Pacific 27 Sep 21 at 2:11pm Eastern 
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