1+ week, 3+ day ago   (404+ words) “Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there.” The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud—pulled…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (685+ words) He reported from space that only “fat” Japanese tree frogs enjoyed weightlessness. The first Japanese citizen to launch into space, Toyohiro Akiyama was also the first commercially sponsored cosmonaut and the world’s first journalist to file reports while on a…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (495+ words) With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA’s science programs need a boost. As is standard procedure for major NASA missions, the US space agency held a post-launch news conference on Sunday morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (523+ words) “We probably need another site that’s capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability.” A new national space transportation policy signed by President Donald Trump on Thursday calls for the development of more spaceports to support more than 1,000 launches and…...