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Down to Earth As of Friday night, the next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to send a Dragon capsule to the ISS is still on the ground. But the issue that caused launch abort on Tuesday has been dealt with, and...
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Down to Earth Elon Musk released photos on his Twitter feed of the moment that the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket first stage hit their “autonomous spaceport drone ship” (see, barge) and blew up. This occurred...
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Down to Earth Last week the European Space Agency welcomed Estonia as their newest member. Last Monday, February 2, was “Budget day” with the President of the United States announcing his budget...
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Down To Earth Some good stuff from NASA’s astronaut office this week. First, the members of ISS Expeditions 48, 49, and 50 were announced. The crews have some veterans such as Jeffrey Williams and...
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Down to Earth NASA has selected five new flight directors for manned spaceflight programs. Last week in Houston a new opera titled ‘O Columbia’ premiered for just two nights at the Houston Grand Opera....
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Down To Earth The European Space Agency published a thought-provoking video about the future of lunar exploration. Here is some interesting PR from the aspiring asteroid mining company Planetary...
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Obviously the huge news this week is the successful launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the return to flight of the Dragon capsule and a successful landing on the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship...
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2015 year in review posts: Part I and Part II. 2014 year in review posts: Part I and Part II. 2013 year in review posts: Part I and Part II. Part I – Exploration Spaceflight, as a many-hundred...
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The year of 2017 will be remembered by most of my readers for reasons totally unrelated to spaceflight. It was a tumultuous year with political turmoil, social strife, acts of violence, and...
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Down to Earth The Center for the Advancement of Science In Space (CASIS) – the organization that manages the ISS as a national laboratory – will be looking for a new executive director after Gregory...
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In Orbit The new National Space Council hosted their second meeting, this time at Kennedy Space Center. Bigelow Aerospace has announced a new sister company, Bigelow Space Operations, who will market...
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Down to Earth VSS Unity, the latest spacecraft from Virgin Galactic, made its first powered flight test yesterday. Video below. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has a new executive...
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Down To Earth Blue Origin flew another test flight of their New Shepard vehicle today. An issue with the Mars 2020 rover’s heat shield will require a replacement to be build before the upcoming launch....
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Down to Earth Peggy Whitson, the American astronaut with the most day’s in space, has retired from NASA. Orbital ATK is no officially a division of Northrop Grumman. An interesting Pew Research Center...
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Down to Earth The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will take advantage on an open seat in an upcoming Soyuz flight to ISS and fly their first homegrown astronaut into orbit. The US Air Force has awarded a...
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Down to Earth Russia will stop building the Proton rocket. The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been officially delayed to 2021. Virgin Orbit has been granted an FAA launch license...
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Down to Earth NASA announced a new class of 6 flight directors for human spaceflight at Johnson Space Center. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) performed a pad abort test of their launch...
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Down to Earth NASA conducted a parachute test for the Orion spacecraft. Blue Origin performed another flight test of their New Shepard rocket, complete with escape motor test. Video below (jump to...
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Down to Earth In late July, Virgin Galactic conducted a third powered test flight of their new SpaceShipTwo spaceplane. In a ceremony at Johnson Space Center, NASA announced the names of the astronauts...
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Down to Earth Exos Aerospace successfully launched their first suborbital rocket in New Mexico. One of the astronaut candidates from NASA’s class of 2017 has resigned before completing his training for...
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