NASA Veteran C-130 Hercules Has Been Mothballed Since the 90s, Now for Sale
30 Jun 2024, 03:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Having never landed rough on an unpaved surface like so many C-130s, this Hercules is in much the same condition as it was the day it was mothballed.
NASA Picks SpaceX to Haul ISS to Its Tomb, Gets Nearly $1 Billion to Do It
27 Jun 2024, 18:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Elon Musk's SpaceX will get the call to bring the ISS back home safely. Well, safely for all of us, not the station itself.
Tiny Moon Amalthea Photobombs NASA Juno Probe Photo of Jupiter, Looks Super Cute
16 May 2024, 23:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For some, it's the first time they've ever seen, let alone heard of this little moon barely the size of a small US state in surface area.
Artemis Accords Finishes Drag Race to 40 Signatories, Welcomes Lithuania
16 May 2024, 00:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Owing to its close proximity to global leaders in the aerospace sector in Sweden and Germany, Lithuania has seen a spike in the number of jobs in aerospace.
Here's How Apple TV's 'For All Mankind' Legitimately Changed My Life, No Seriously
4 Mar 2024, 05:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For a particular set of people to whom space-related fiction is their bread and butter, totally their thing, 'For All Mankind' is like no other show made today.
Up Close and Personal With Dream Chaser Tenacity, Sierra Space's Pint-Sized Spaceplane
6 Feb 2024, 03:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Inside the Armstrong Facility, DC-101 Tenacity made its triumphant debut in front of the press and media alike as it sat on a 55-foot (16.6-m) tall test stack.
Sierra Space's New Inflatable Space Habitat Pushed to Destruction in Burst Test
22 Jan 2024, 13:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center playing the host, Sierra Space just concluded its first full-scale structural test for a semi-rigid space station.
Jeremy Hansen Will Be the First Non-American to Orbit the Moon, Hear His Side of the Story
16 Jan 2024, 04:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Many thanks to Jeremy Hansen and the Canadian Space Agency's public relations team for giving us the time to sit down with Jeremy Hansen, a real Canadian hero.
NASA and Roscosmos Put Ukraine Aside, Agree to Cooperate On ISS Until 2025
28 Dec 2023, 17:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In a report first dropped by Reuters and corroborated by The Moscow Times, a tentative agreement between Roscosmos and NASA will collab on ISS for now.
Amalthea: The Most Fascinating Jovian Moon You've Never Heard Of
27 Dec 2023, 16:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is Amalthea, and if there were a single non-Galenian Jovian moon one could point to as the most interesting in the entire system, this would be our pick.
HL-20 Personnel Launch System: The Canceled NASA Space Plane Reborn as Dream Chaser
18 Dec 2023, 17:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Dream Chaser isn't just the fruit of the ambitions of 21st-century engineers and scientists looking to reinvent the "wheel." Its origins stretch way back.
Hydrazine: Explosive, Toxic, Carcinogenic Rocket Fuel That Makes Gas Look Like Tap Water
16 Dec 2023, 04:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is hydrazine, and it's the toxic, carcinogenic, potentially explosive chemical concoction powering satellites across the globe and beyond.
Ares: NASA's Canceled Super-Heavy Rocket That Didn't Make Practical Sense
14 Dec 2023, 04:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of NASA's Ares-class super-heavy lift vehicle. Before SLS, this was the booster rocket slated to bring humanity back beyond low-Earth orbit.
Convair 990 Coronado: How a Failed Airliner Found a Robot Tank Buddy at NASA
17 Nov 2023, 22:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Convair 990 Coronado, a failed commercial passenger jetliner that had a miraculous second renaissance working for NASA.
Vulcan Centaur: United Launch Alliance's First All-New Rocket Launches Christmas Eve 2023
15 Nov 2023, 20:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the Vulcan Centaur, and it's here to prove that SpaceX and Blue Origin aren't the only names in town in heavy-lift American booster rockets
Hubble and James Webb Telescopes Team Up to Snap Amazing Compound View of the Cosmos
10 Nov 2023, 18:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Safe to say, this probably won't be the last time that America's two most famous and powerful telescopes work together. far from it.
NASA's Two Most Important Space Telescopes Team Up To Find Record-Breaking Black Hole
7 Nov 2023, 20:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / While Chandra observed the more apparent X-ray blasts emitted in the foreground of the above composite image, JWST used its infrared sensors to fill the blanks.
NASA Can't Make its Mind Up Over Who Builds the Next Lunar Rover, Delayed Four Months
6 Nov 2023, 18:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Had all gone according to plan, NASA intended to have the contracts signed and production orders put in place for the Artemis program by November 27th, 2023.
Sierra Space Completes Construction of Dream Chaser Tenacity, First Launch Due Next April
6 Nov 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Should all go according to schedule, Dream Chaser Tenacity is due to launch its first orbital test flight to the ISS out of Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida.
James Webb Space Telescope Snaps Newborn Star Throwing Cosmic Temper Tantrum
6 Nov 2023, 15:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The peculiar stellar object in question snapped by JWST is known as Herbig-Haro (HH) 212. As a cosmological mish-mash of stellar dust and stars.