In article , says... BTW, the NASA guy now refers to Cygnus as a Northrop Grunman...

NASA got a bad day some weeks ago. A microbiologist discovered that Acetinobacter can eat the desinfectant that NASA sprays in their clean rooms... A soil...

"Blue origin essentially wants to enable lunar manufacturing. Bezos thinks that moving the heavy industry to the moon and hollowed asteroids will help...

I just found again an old document I read some 18 years ago about space elevators: http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/472Edwards.pdf I...

"The international nuclear technology company BWX Technologies, Inc. opened a Huntsville office Thursday to begin developing products for the aerospace and...

SpaceX Ponders Hypersonic Decelerator For Second-stage Recovery Jun 8,...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/bacteria-can-eat-the-cleaning-products-nasa-uses-to-sterilize-its-spaceships/562016/

How does one zoom out to see more than a disorientating interior? Google satellite image, zoom out enough to see Earth as a planet, and a sidebar appears...

The juno spacecraft passed over the poles of Jupiter last Saturday. Using NASA's Eyes application, I followed the approach in the simulator in my Mac....

"If something sounds too good to be true then it probably is, so goes the old saying. And unfortunately, it now seems this is also applicable to the...

NASA is at least verbally sounding more encouraging about the SpaceX 'Load and Go' launch for manned vehicles. This is good because, while they could do it...

I've seen at least one report that if their predictions for Block 5 hold up when they tear down their first one, SpaceX is planning to drop the cost of a...

So NASA is going to let contracts for people doing commercial lunar landers so they can manifest payloads on them. Just who do they think those commercial...

The first flight of SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 has happened. Both the launch (the first communications satellite for Bangladesh) and the landing of the first...

JF Mezei wrote on Fri, 11 May 2018 16:50:59 -0400: On 2018-05-11 01:22, Niklas Holsti wrote: What/where are those...

What would it take to get such a thing in orbit? Are there any *knowledgeable* readers left in sci.space.policy that can comment on this (Fred, Jeff and Greg...

"An Atlas 5 rocket soared into space early on Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying NASA’s first robotic lander designed for...

https://www.space.com/40313-spacex-rocket-landing-giant-party-balloon.html I find this interesting for a couple of reasons. The approach is interesting and I...

Elon Musk said at South by Southwest that his Big Falcon Rocket would start doing small test flights early next...

NASA is apparently having problem with their new upper stage and is now planning on flying at least the next three missions on the original SLS Block 1...