Mars or Bust

I was reading a piece in ARS Technica about the potential pivot of a Clinton administration back to the Moon rather than Mars.   Physici...

“I’m open-minded but skeptical that anyone actually wants to live out his or her life on Mars any more than anyone wants to colonize Antarc...

I was surprised to read a Washington Post piece stating the United Launch Alliance (UAL) was part of the investigation surrounding the Sep...

It wasn't long ago Elon Musk was laughing about Blue Origin's successful return of the New Shepard reusable rocket because it w...

"Despair is always the wrong response to a failure during exploration and it isn’t disciplined engineering. When the entire crew of ...

It appears SpaceX will take the lead on the investigation of the Falcon 9 explosion on September 1 , though NASA, the Air Force, the Fede...

SpaceX released this statement  yesterday regarding Thursday's rocket explosion in Florida: SpaceX has begun the careful and delibera...

Bad news for SpaceX and therefore NASA - a Falcon rocket exploded in Florida earlier today in preparation for a commercial satellite lau...

Yesterday morning SpaceX had another successful landing following the launch of the CRS-9 mission aboard the Dragon to the International ...

It wasn't too long ago NASA stated it would leave Low Earth Orbit (LEO) missions for the private sector while the space agency would ...

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...

Maybe tomorrow will be the day. SpaceX has already scrubbed an SES-9 communications satellite launch four  times now for various reasons...

Even if SpaceX is still struggling with the barge landing of the Falcon 9 rocket, the company continues to rack up good news in terms of f...

The launch and Jason-3 satellite placement was a success, but SpaceX continues to have difficulty landing the Falcon 9 rocket on the barge...

Monday was a great day for Blue Origin, a small rocket company funded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos. The firm successfully landed its BE-3 re...

It is pretty amazing to see the United Launch Alliance (ULA) walk away from a US Air Force contact, basically handing it over to SpaceX...

There has been a lot of talk about EXIM and the space industry, but what does this entity do?  It is actually a bank and arm of government...

In December we should see SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket back on the launch pad blasting two commercial satellites into orbit. This will b...

If you have yet to see the new film  The Martian you should ignore this post. But if you have seen the movie, maybe you too wondered ab...