Category: Space
This crappy video shows a giant leap in space rocket technology
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX has announced something rather significant in his company's work: They've managed to land a rocket booster safely in the ocean, making the goal of reusable rockets come all that closer. If you've been following space…
Urthecast blasts off to the ISS – and looks set to give us real-time Google Earth!
An intriguing new service moved a step closer this morning, as UrtheCast successfully sent their cameras into space on board a Russian Soyuz rocket – in preparation for offering near real time HD video of Earth from the International Space…
Space Expedition Corporation get Buzz Aldrin's blessing ahead of commercial space tourism trips
Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon and subject of that most-iconic of moon landing photos above, has signed on to become a member of Space Expedition Corporation's advisory board, one of the leading companies vying for dominance in…
More Gs than Clarkson: My ride inside the human centrifuge
I'm sitting somewhere in the middle of a former RAF base in Farnborough, strapped into a tiny recreated jet fighter cockpit, on the end of a huge mechanical contraption that wouldn't look out of place in an Alien film, a…
Win a trip into space with…Lynx deodorant???
We've all probably come to terms with the fact that we're never going to make it as NASA astronauts, a fact as much to do with dwindling space program budgets as it is to do with our beer bellies. But…
RIP Sir Patrick Moore: Astronomy legend and GamesMaster star dies aged 89
Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer, broadcaster and Games Master star, passed away this weekend aged 89. Succumbing to the ill health that had made him wheelchair bound in recent years, Moore passed away at 12:25 on Sunday 9th December at his…
Sarah Brightman to become world's most unlikely astronaut
Time to say goodbye to British soprano Sarah Brightman; the Phantom of the Opera star is set to take a trip into space, travelling on a Russian spaceship and flying to the International Space Station, 250 miles above Earth. Setting…
Nasa's Curiosity Mars landing is a success
Nasa's Curiosity rover has successfully landed on Mars this morning. The one-tonne mobile laboratory reached the conclusion of its mammoth 570-million-km journey at 06.32 BST (05:32 GMT), landing in a large crater near the planet's equator. The fruits of a…
Trekkie plans crowd-sourced 20 year USS Enterprise building project
We've seen many a fan project come and go in our time as netizens, but nothing quite as ambitious, nor as bonkers, as one man's plan to have a full size working Star Trek USS Enterprise spaceship built. A fan…
CleanSpaceOne to vacuum up space debris
Even space needs a bit of a Spring-clean, and after years of boldly exploring regions of the cosmos where few humans have dared to float, we've left it in a bit of a state up there. Now a team from…
