By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA’s decision to send Boeing’s Starliner capsule home without any astronauts follows years of missteps by the planemaker in its space sector and raises doubts about the unit’s future, analysts and industry sources said. Carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) would … Read more
Space has evolved tremendously over the past 25 years, evolving from government-driven exploration missions to a dynamic, more commercially driven field. In 1999, there were 79 launch attempts into Earth orbit, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) tests. Many of the missions were carried out by the venerable spaceshipDelta and Soyuz rockets, with the US and … Read more
In a quiet part of rural Arizona, hundreds of people die after suffering from blood clots almost immediately. Some die mid-pass, while others go ‘quietly mad’ before committing suicide, often in bizarre ways. The cause turns out to be a crashed satellite, which brings with it a deadly pathogen from space. A group of scientists … Read more
For someone at the forefront of the British space industry, Steve Bennett’s life couldn’t be further removed from Elon Musk’s. Having just celebrated his 60th birthday, the CEO of Starchaser Industries told the MEN he had been passing the time ‘chilling’ on his narrowboat in Nantwich. Starchaser Industries is an aerospace company based in Hyde, … Read more
Within the next few decades, NASA plans to land humans on the moon, establish a lunar colony and use the lessons learned to send humans to Mars as part of its Artemis program. While researchers know that space travel can tax space crew members both physically and mentally and test their ability to work together … Read more