Space Flight
Stephen Hawking Will Experience Zero Gravity
Famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking is scheduled to take a ride on the vomit comet, and experience a bit of what…
Construction for the New Soyuz Launch Facility Begins
Workers broke ground this week on a new construction site at the European Space Agency's new Soyuz launch base in…
Virgin Galactic Considering Hypersonic Airline Travel
Flightglobal.com is reporting that NASA and Virgin Galactic have signed a memorandum of understanding to work on commercial spaceflight and…
Blue Origin’s Rocket is Finally Revealed
It's been a huge secret for several years. Amazon.com's founder Jeff Bezos has a rocket company on the side called…
Jules Verne Spends 21 Days in Space, Here on Earth
ESA's new Automated Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne, has recently spent 21 days in a chamber that simulated the cold, radiation…
Podcast: Plasma Thruster Prototype
If you're going to fly in space, you need some kind of propulsion system. Chemical rockets can accelerate quickly, but…
Researchers Create a New Plasma Thruster
Researchers from the Australian National University have created a prototype thruster that could offer a new form of propulsion for…