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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch world’s first private space station

February 8, 2024 Kieran Burt 356 Views Airbus, Elon Musk, First, Launch, Nanoracks, news, private, space, space station, SpaceX, Starlab, Voyager Space, Worlds

Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has signed a deal with Voyager Space and Airbus to launch the world’s first private space

Orion touches down on Earth

December 12, 2022 Kieran Burt 632 Views Artemis 1, Artemis Program, down, Earth, Mission, Moon, NASA, news, Orion, space, Spacecraft, touches

By Kieran Burt. On 11 December 2022, Orion splashed down in Pacific ocean, and completed its 25 day mission to

NASA Launches Artemis 1 Rocket

November 17, 2022 Kieran Burt 679 Views Artemis 1, Artemis Program, Launches, Lunar, Moon, NASA, news, Orion capsule, Rocket, SLS, space, Space Launch System, Spacecraft

By Kieran Burt. NASA launched its most powerful rocket into space on November 16, after three previous failed launch attempts.

NASA to launch the next generation of manned space exploration with Artemis 1

August 26, 2022 Owen Cotter 631 Views Artemis 1, Artemis Program, Astronauts, Gateway, Launch, Lunar, Mars, Megarocket, Moon, moonbase, NASA, news, Orion capsule, SLS, space, Space Launch System, Spacecraft, spacestation

Article by Kieran Burt. A large part of science fiction finds authors and audiences alike looking to the stars, dreaming

Artemis 1 SLS Rocket and crew vehicle Orion closer to launch

July 7, 2022 Kieran Burt 791 Views Artemis 1, Artemis Program, Astronauts, colonization, exploration, Humanity, Launch, Lunar, Moon, moonbase, NASA, news, Orion capsule, Rocket, SLS, Spacecraft, updates

Article by Owen Cotter. Instagram @OwenCCotter It’s been fifty years since humanity has traveled to our closest satellite the Moon.

ESA Mars Express orbiter finally gets a software upgrade, 19 years later

July 2, 2022 Owen Cotter 521 Views Carlo Nenna, data, ESA, Mars Express Orbiter, MARSIS, Microsoft, outdated, science, software, space, Spacecraft, system, tech, update, upgrade, Windows 98

The software was originally designed over 20 years ago based on the now-outdated Microsoft system “We faced a number of

Future of Lunar Colonization

April 14, 2022 Owen Cotter 609 Views Astronauts, colonization, colony, Energy, engineering, exploration, Future, futurism, Lunar, Lunar Lander, Moon, moonbase, regolith, science, space, Spacecraft, tech

Establishing a colony on the moon would force scientists and engineers to solve extremely complex design problems but would open

Podcasts Science Space

(EXCLUSIVE) Interview with actor/director/astronomer Tim Russ

April 9, 2022 Owen Cotter 487 Views Actor, Asteroids, Astronomy, Comet, convention, CyPhaCon, Deep Space, Exoplanets, fundraising, Griffith Observatory, Imaging, interview, Los Angeles Astronomical Society, media, NASA, Objects, Planetary Society, podcast, projects, scifi, space, star trek, Star trek Voyager, Stargazing, tech, Telescope, Tim Russ, Transits, Unistellar, Unistellar EV, Visual Astronomy

In this exclusive episode I talk with Tim Russ.We discuss his passion for astronomy, currentlyTim is working on a project

Articles Science Space

What Is a Dyson Sphere and Can We Ever Build One ?

March 18, 2022 Owen Cotter 640 Views colonization, construction, Dyson Sphere, Freeman Dyson, futurism, habitat, megastructure, science, space, sun

Dyson spheres may be unrealistic right now, but they’re likely coming in the next few hundred years. A Dyson sphere

APOLLO 10½: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD OFFICIAL TRAILER

March 9, 2022 Owen Cotter 547 Views animation, APOLLO 10½: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD, exploration, film, Jack Black, movies, NASA, Netflix, official, Richard Linklater, scifi, space, space age, stories, tale, trailer, Zachary Levi

Linklater’s Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood debuts at SXSW this month, on March 13. It then safely lands at Netflix on

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