Earlier this year the The peace of a Florida neighborhood was disturbed when a piece of junk from the international space station crashed through a house. This was followed in May by a 90-pound piece of a SpaceX Dragon ship crashing into a camping resort in North Carolina, raising the question: are space agencies doing … Read more
Thousands of satellites are currently in low Earth orbit, and some will eventually become defunct and fall back into our planet’s atmosphere. When they reenter the atmosphere, satellites leave behind a trail of chemicals that eat away at the ozone layer. A new study warns that the growing number of internet satellites have contributed to … Read more
Travel to space should be an eye-opening experienceone that gives you a new perspective humanity and its place in the cosmos. But while you might think an experience like this would make someone infinitely wiser, here’s a new report discovered that space travel could do that make you a little dumber. 2024 BMW X5 50e … Read more
WASHINGTON – NASA has selected seven companies to research “out-of-the-box” concepts for the agency’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, which could deliver samples faster and cheaper than current plans. NASA announced late June 7 that it had selected proposals from Aerojet Rocketdyne, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Quantum Space, SpaceX and Whittinghill Aerospace for … Read more
6 In recent months, Blue Origin has been busy realizing many of its projects as the target dates approach. The new Glenn is getting closer to launch, facilities are being expanded, BE-4 engines have been delivered to ULA, and the New Shepard has returned to crewed flights.New Glenn As the September launch of NASA’s EscaPADE … Read more
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation following an incident during the first manned flight in two years in which one of the New Shepard capsule’s parachutes failed to fully inflate. William Shatner on Jeff Bezos The companies New Shepard rocket launched May 19 taking a crew of … Read more
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – A parachute failed to fully inflate during Blue Origin New Shepard’s final suborbital flight because a line controlling its deployment was not cut as planned. One of the three New Shepard crew capsule parachutes failed to fully inflate during the capsule’s descent during the NS-25 mission on May 19. The … Read more