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History Has Been Made: NASA Just Carried Out The First All-Female Spacewalk
NASA made history Friday morning when astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir stepped outside the International Space Station to replace a faulty battery charger. → Read More
The World's Largest Plane Just Took to The Skies in an Unreal First Flight
Stratolaunch, the massive aircraft dreamed up by the late Paul Allen, flew for the first time on Saturday, becoming the largest plane by wingspan ever to take to the skies. → Read More
Virgin Galactic Just Made History by Reaching Space, With Humans on Board
Virgin Galactic launched a spacecraft more than 50 miles (80 km) high Thursday, reaching the Federal Aviation Administration's definition of space and capturing a long-elusive goal for the company founded by Richard Branson that one day wants to fl → Read More
After Harrowing Launch Failure Earlier, New ISS Crew Has Just Reached The Station
The first Russian rocket to fly with people since a harrowing failure two months ago blasted off Monday morning in a successful return to flight. → Read More
NASA Is Reviewing Safety at SpaceX And Boeing, Reportedly Thanks to Musk's Pot Smoking Episode
NASA has ordered a safety review of the two companies it has hired to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, a months-long assessment that would involve hundreds of interviews designed to evaluate the culture of the workplaces, the agency → Read More
NASA Is Reviewing Safety at SpaceX And Boeing, Reportedly Thanks to Musk's Pot Smoking Episode
NASA has ordered a safety review of the two companies it has hired to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, a months-long assessment that would involve hundreds of interviews designed to evaluate the culture of the workplaces, the agen → Read More
Trump's 'Space Force' Is Serious And We Just Got a Bunch of New Details
Vice President Pence laid out an ambitious plan Thursday that would begin creating a military command dedicated to space and establish a "Space Force" as the sixth branch of the US military as soon as 2020, the first since the Air Force was formed → Read More
President Trump Officially Wants to Send NASA Back to The Moon
Once again, the Trump administration has pledged to restore America's leadership in space by teaming with the private sector and returning to the moon. → Read More
SpaceX Just Launched Pentagon's X-37B Spaceplane on a Mysterious Mission
In the Pentagon's vast arsenal there is little quite like it: a super-secret space drone that looks like a miniature version of the space shuttle, but orbits the Earth for months, even years, at a time. Doing what? The Air Force won't say. → Read More
A Microsoft Billionaire Just Unveiled The Biggest Plane Ever Built
The initial construction of the massive airplane Paul Allen has been quietly building in the California desert is complete, and the vehicle, which would be the world's largest airplane with a wingspan wider than Howard Hughes's Spruce Goose, was... → Read More