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In 1964, Austrian journalist Gerhard Pistor walked into a travel agency with an unusual request: a ticket to the Moon. The ...
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Gen. Stephen Whiting, the commander of U.S. Space Command, recently made waves when he publicly discussed a major threat that America’s newest military branch recently war-gamed — that of an adversary ...
On May 28, the space dreams of Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon who started his Blue Origin rocket company in 2000, went up in flames. At the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ...
It could be more than a year before Blue Origin's New Glenn is ready to fly again, but NASA has no intention of letting the Artemis timeline slip. Reading time 4 minutes When Blue Origin’s New Glenn ...
Welcome to Edition 8.44 of the Rocket Report! The news this week is decidedly weighted in favor of heavy-lift rockets, largely due to the fallout from last Thursday’s explosion of Blue Origin’s New ...
Last week’s explosion of a New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was clearly a setback for Blue Origin and NASA, but it was a learning experience for safety officials looking to open up the ...
A fully fueled Blue Origin New Glenn rocket went up in flames on May 28, triggering the largest explosion in Cape Canaveral history. Credit: SpaceflightNow.com for Aviation Week Sonic booms and rocket ...
The explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station was massive, but the response by the Space Force emergency crews was quick and well-prepared. “I had just gotten home and ...
How About a Declaration of Charity? Here Come the New Jacobins Blue Origin’s rocket explosion last week shouldn’t affect our pioneering approach to 21st-century space exploration. Last week, Blue ...
NASA was winding down its space-shuttle program during the Bush administration when Houston realized it had a problem: None of the four retiring space shuttle orbiters were bound for Texas, even ...