On November 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will visit its first asteroid, Dinkinesh. Their meeting will be a critical, ultra-brief encounter between two of the loneliest drifters in the Solar System. Lucy has already been flying through space for two years.
[30 May 2020] SpaceX and NASA Launch to Station
Saturday, May 30th saw the first Falcon 9/Crew Dragon flight to ISS carrying astronauts. The mission left Florida in a picture perfect flight and placed the 2 DM-2 astronauts into a 200 km preliminary orbit. Over the next 19 hours
[29 May 2020] Starship SN4 Destroyed After Static Test
SpaceX suffered another RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly) of their most promising Starship prototype, SN4, just minutes after another successful static test firing of the Raptor engine at the Boca Chica, TX test facility. SpaceX has been testing SN4, the first
[27 May 2020] SpaceX Ready To Launch Astronauts
SpaceX is counting down the final hours to a scheduled Wednesday, May 27th 4:33 pm EDT Saturday, May 30th 3:22 pm EDT launch of Crew Dragon DM-2 flight carrying two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
[20 Feb 2016] E.R.P.S. Tours SpaceX
E.R.P.S. members pose at the mural outside SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
[21 Feb 2016] F.A.R. Trip
E.R.P.S. members examine a static test stand at F.A.R. in the Mojave Desert.
NASA Signs Lease with Google Subsidiary for Moffett Field
By Jeff Foust | Nov. 17, 2014 WASHINGTON — NASA has signed an agreement to lease Moffett Federal Airfield, run by the agency’s Ames Research Center, to a company owned by Internet
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FAA To Offer $5 Million Prize
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requesting funding in the 2012 budget to offer a $5 million prize to encourage the development of projects designed to provide low-cost space transportation. “I’m a big proponent of the value of prizes