Mars or Bust

This has been a busy weekend on the International Space Station (ISS), where the amazing has become mundane.  First, a Russian Soyuz space...

" The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) have agreed to work together t...

This week NASA has set fire to a Cygnus space capsule after it departed from the International Space Station as part of its SAFFIRE mission ...

Bigelow has posted a number of photos of its Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), including an astronaut's entry of the module o...

This week NASA started to inflate the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) while attached to the International Space Station. It sh...

The transit of Mercury across the sun was interesting to watch last week, as is the transit of the International Space Station. In fact...

It is worth looking back down once in awhile on this big blue marble called Earth. We are searching the heavens to find what we already ha...

SpaceX has done it!  Earlier today the space company's Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed on a drone platform off the coast of Fl...

Things are getting busy up there in low Earth orbit.  The other week Orbital ATK sent up a Cygnus cargoship .  And then Russian resupply s...

I thought this was a fun article on a year in space from Matt Novak at Paleofuture called Everything That Happened On Earth While These G...

International Space Station (ISS) replenishment work continued with yesterday's launch of the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargoship. Everythin...

A new crew of one American and two Russians safely arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) over the weekend after launching from...

Tomorrow astronaut Scott Kelly will land in Kazakstan, completing almost a year aboard the International Space Station. He has broken t...

I am impressed that Stephen Colbert is bringing astronauts and scientists onto his Late Show program.  Most of the other talk shows seem ...

We could be looking at Mars except for the marshes and that blue atmosphere in the background.  Maybe this is what a terraformed Mars may ...

Orbital ATK is back after a rough year. The successful Sunday launch of the Cygnus capsule aboard an Atlas V rocket put the company back...

Time flies when you are in Earth orbit, or so it seems. This week (November 2nd) marks the 15th year humans have continuously occupied  th...

The supplies keep rolling in and things are returning to normal on the International Space Station (ISS).  Russia's Progress M-29M/61P...

This drawing from NASA walks you through the effects of space on the human body, as well as the effects of the human body on space. It focus...

The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) just went to nine yesterday as the Russian Soyuz spacecraft (TMA-18M) docked at the stat...