Toyota Is Planning to Get Into the Space-Car Business
Toyota and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced an agreement Tuesday to “consider the possibility…
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Everything You Need to Know About Crew Dragon, SpaceX's Newest Human-Carrying Spaceship
This has been a very big week, space-travel-wise, because for the first time ever a privately-built-and-launched…
A Failed Soviet Venus Probe Might Just Crash Back to Earth This Year, So Heads Up
One of the lesser-known achievements of the Cold War-era Space Race is the Soviet successes in landing probes on the…
Somebody Discovered a Saturn Rocket Motor Just Sitting in a Missouri Junkyard
Whenever I drive past a junkyard, it’s always a struggle to keep my focus on driving and not crane my neck sideways to…
Israel Is Preparing to Send the First Privately-Funded Spacecraft to the Moon
So far, there’s only been three countries to send spacecraft to the moon: the United States, home of the Whopper™, the…
The Plucky Opportunity Rover May Finally Have Died on the Cold, Red Surface of Mars (UPDATE: It's Gone)
I know it’s just a machine, but I’m not, and what I’m feeling is real: a bit of sadness at the idea that after 15…
Watch a Soyuz Rocket Launch from Absurdly Close to the Launch Pad
I’ve attempted to watch rockets launch from Vandenburg Air Force Base a few times when I was in California, and the…
SpaceX Will Rename Big Falcon Rocket Project to 'Starship'
Elon Musk has always treated the names for his impressive ventures a bit like a 14-year-old kid would. The lineup of…
Watch The Moment That Terrifying Russian Rocket Failure Went Wrong
Three weeks ago, a Russian and American crew was streaking towards the International Space Station in a Russian-built…
China Has the Only Way to Get Humans to Space Right Now
Yesterday, the Soyuz rocket carrying an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut failed, forcing the crew capsule to…
SpaceX Reveals Its First Paying Customer For a Flight to the Moon
In a webcast news conference tonight, Elon Musk revealed that the first paying customer to fly on the ambitious SpaceX…
You'll Never Be As Cool As the Astronauts Who Fixed Their Spaceship With Duct Tape and Epoxy
Everyone knows that there’s no problem that a good roll of duct tape can’t fix. Chances are, though, you probably…
State Department Official Suspects Russia May Have an Unknown Space Weapon
In a speech given earlier today, the State Department’s assistant secretary of state for arms control, verification,…
NASA Announces First Crews for New SpaceX and Boeing Spacecraft
At the moment, there’s only one approved, legal way to get to the orbiting International Space Station as an American…
This Custom 1964 Corvette Going to Auction Would Look Much Better Going to Space
There’s a 1964 Chevrolet Corvette with “custom bodywork” listed on the Mecum Auctions website right now, scheduled to…
The Three Things No One Ever Tells You About Teleportation
Even though the routine teleportation of humans and objects from one point in space to another is, at this point,…
Celebrate the 49th Anniversary of the Moon Landing With Buzz Aldrin Punching Some Jerk in the Face
If there are three things that put a smile on my face in this cold, heartless world, they are space, history and satisfy…
Chinese Space Agency Official Thinks Planned US Lunar Orbital Station Is Pretty Stupid
I’m not sure how closely you’ve been following the cislunar space real estate market, but NASA has been planning to…
India's Closer To Putting A Person In Space
This past Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organization performed a crucial pad-abort test on their crew capsule…
Russia Will Stop Building Their 53-Year-Old Workhorse Proton Rockets And It's Partially Elon Musk's Fault
The Russian Proton rocket, the Soviet Union’s and then Russia’s primary medium-lift workhorse rocket, is finally being…