By Ben Evans, on November 16th, 2014 Image montage of the Orion spacecraft and the “business end” of its Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle. Image Credits: AmericaSpace / Alan Walters / NASA / Kim Shiflett
Three weeks from now, the first human-capable vehicle for Beyond Earth Orbit (BEO) exploration in more than four decades is scheduled to roar away from […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 15th, 2014 An artist’s rendering of December’s Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) test, which will take the Orion capsule 3,600 miles (5,800 km) into space. Image Credit: NASA
For any astronomer, Orion is a relatively straightforward constellation to find in the night sky. Honoring the hunter of ancient Greek myth, its “belt” of three stars—the supergiants […]
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By Jason Rhian, on July 27th, 2012 NASA’s next-generation heavy-lift booster has been approved to move on to the preliminary design phase. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s next heavy-lift launch booster, the Space Launch System (SLS) has completed a review by the space agency and will now enter into the preliminary design phase. This is big step toward the production of […]
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By Jason Rhian, on July 19th, 2012 NASA has selected six potential proposals for advanced booster designs that will be used on the space agency’s Space Launch System. Image Credit: NASA
NASA is working to make its new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System or “SLS” dependable and inexpensive. To do this, the space agency has tapped six proposed booster […]
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By Ben Evans, on June 23rd, 2012 NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden (right) inspects J-2X hardware on the test stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Photo Credit: NASA
When humans next chart a course beyond Earth orbit, setting sail for an asteroid, the moons of Mars or the Red Planet itself, they will do so atop the mammoth Space […]
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By Jason Rhian, on April 28th, 2012 NASA's crawler-transporters have been around since the Apollo era and are now being prepared for future missions. Photo Credit: Julian Leek/Blue Sawtooth Studios
We sent veteran aerospace photojournalist Julian Leek to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on a tour of one of the massive crawler-transporters that have been used by the space agency to […]
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By Jason Rhian, on April 12th, 2012 So, which of the presidential candidates does this space supporter back? The answer might suprise you… Photo Credit: Jason Rhian
Another election year, time for the “unbiased” media to give their endorsement to one candidate or another. After listening to both Presidential candidates’ comments and actions regarding space exploration, here is my “fair […]
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By Julian Leek, on February 26th, 2012 President Barack Obama waves to the media after attending a $30,000-a-plate fundraiser. Photo Credit: Julian Leek
ORLANDO, Fla – President Barack Obama visited the Sunshine State Thursday evening for a fund-raising dinner that cost $30,000 a plate. All total, Obama made four stops in Florida, including Miami and Orlando – but made no […]
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By Jason Rhian, on January 30th, 2012 Given that the end of the space shuttle program was announced in 2004, it is well past the time when NASA should be flying astronauts on its own spacecraft. The fault, however, is not with NASA – but with the government. Image Credit: Jason Rhian
The “Soyuz Epoch” continues to go badly. Shortly […]
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By Ben Evans, on January 13th, 2012
When will we have a clearly-defined objective to explore beyond low-Earth-orbit again? Image Credit: NASA
“Politicians,” astronaut John Young once said, “are a strange bunch of critters.” In its first half-century of life, NASA propelled humanity further than ever before: into space, to the Moon and to the farthest reaches of the […]
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