NASA Could Force SpaceX To Fly A Toyota To The Moon
NASA’s return to the moon has been plagued by delays and spiraling costs, which means it could now fall to privateer firms like SpaceX to take us back to the …
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India Chasing NASA With Its Own Plans For Moon-Orbiting Space Station
Image: NASA Amid the Artemis program’s launch delays and budget overruns, a second player is entering the race back to the Moon. India announced its intentions to build a space …
Wooden Satellite Launched Into Space As Testbed For Timber-Built Mars Missions
Photo: STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP (Getty Images) With space debris becoming an increasingly common threat in orbit, a change in aerospace design could be necessary. A wooden satellite designed by Japanese researchers …
Satellite Damage Spotted Using Selfie Footage
Photo: Kongsberg NanoAvionics Space might be a vacuum, but it certainly isn’t empty. Kongsberg NanoAvionics revealed on Wednesday that one of its MP42 satellites was struck by a tiny unidentified …
Hurricane Milton Strands Astronauts In Space As NASA Delays SpaceX Crew-8 Return
Photo: SpaceX The category-four Hurricane Milton will make landfall in Florida on Wednesday and is projected to be the worst to strike the state in 100 years. The devastation expected …
Tech Bros Trying To Sell Sunlight Can’t Even Make A Convincing Fake Video
There are a few basic things in life that should be free for everyone: water, education and sunlight. Sadly, there’s now a Californian startup hoping to monetize the latter with …
Here’s What A Rocket Looks Like After 15 Years Abandoned In Space
There’s an awful lot of junk floating around in space, with recent estimates suggesting there could be more than 25,000 objects in orbit around the Earth right now. We don’t …
We’re So Good At Making Trash We’ve Started Putting Useless Junk In Space, Too
Image: NASA I have become convinced that the truly incredible quantity of junk being launched into space on a regular basis will become one of the world’s greatest problems within …
Florida Family Sues NASA For $80,000 After Space Junk Smashes Through Home
A family in Florida faced a scary ordeal earlier this year. No, they weren’t caught up in a Ron DeSantis rally, instead they had their house smashed up by a …
Women Are Better Than Men At One More Thing: Space Exploration
Image: NASA/Interim Archives (Getty Images) Women are better than men at most things, that’s just a given, so here’s one more thing that we can add to the list: Physically …