Yogurt? Come on.
Former astronaut Leroy Chiao regales Gizmodo readers with tales of star voyaging. This is probably my favourite bit: Today, I was going to write about how to do something else in space. But, I changed...
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Apollo 11
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and...
View ArticleAFOSR and NASA develop eco-friendly rocket fuel
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and NASA recently announced the launch of an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprised of aluminum powder and water ice...
View ArticleWe agree not to do the thing we lack all capability to do
9/9/2009 – WASHINGTON (AFNS) — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Canadian Space Agency President Steve MacLean signed a framework agreement Wednesday for cooperative activities in the exploration...
View ArticleIt’s morning in America, all right
LockMart’s ex-CEO says NASA doesn’t have enough juice to make a go of the Constellation program. Who needs manned spaceflight, anyway? And USN brass start making nervous sounds about the Navy’s...
View ArticleIkaria XB1 (1963)
Icarus XB1 Future Czech cosmonauts survey a derelict spacecraft from (presumably extinct) capitalist nations, launched in 1987. In one of history’s supreme ironies, these retro-cosmonauts expected...
View ArticleWorld-class means world events
Editor’s Note: The title of this piece was altered, upon reflection, from its original—”For the whiners” Toronto’s a big city. Big cities occasionally host big events and big personalities. New York...
View ArticleOV-101 ALT test, 1977
Three-minute highlight reel featuring takeoff (mated to 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft), separation, and touchdown. Slightly annoying music but interesting nonetheless.
View ArticleSoviet shuttle orbiter Buran, 1988
Russia’s own reusable space vehicle made its first and only space flight on November 15th, 1988; it flew a fully automated mission profile with no crewmembers aboard.
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Pad 110/37 (110L), Baikonur Cosmodrome
English Russia displays a collection of contemporary images from the former launch facility for Russia’s Buran-Energia space shuttle. The one and only launch from Pad 110L occurred in 1988; it’s been...
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