This Hubble Space Telescope Control Console Is Just What You Need For Your Home

Are you one of those fans of the Hubble Space Telescope who's sick of all the cut-rate control panel knockoffs for your home Hubble Mission Control simulator? Isn't it time you finally stepped up and really got the equipment you deserve? Of course it is. That's why you need to...

Nov 4, 2025

NASA Wants To Lasso An Asteroid So We Can All Hang Out On It

Hey guys, wanna party on an asteroid? NASA is apparently working to make that happen for all of us. Next week President Obama is set to ask Congress to move up plans to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2021, according to . How will they land on an asteroid...

Nov 4, 2025

GM Strapped Rockets To Cars For Testing And Probably Fun

A while back, I had a delightfully terrible idea to use spacecraft-type maneuvering . I thought I was pretty clever, but then I saw this picture of a Corvair with a rocket strapped to its side way back in the '60s. The picture, which I saw , turns out to...

Nov 4, 2025

What's The Weirdest Fact About Space Travel?

Travelling through space is a mind-bending proposition. Gravity gets weird, the passage of time gets weird, and you drink your own pee. Yep, brave human beings up beyond the heavens are these days. This means that little Timmy dreaming of being the next Buzz Aldrin is probably peeing into a...

Nov 4, 2025

The Ten Weirdest Facts About Space Travel

Thinking about space sex? Good luck! Washing your hands? Well, that won't be easy out there either. Space is a wonderfully scary place where everyday materials and the human body go through weird changes. The insight we've gained from Star Trek and Starship Troopers isn't exactly the full truth about...

Nov 4, 2025

Why Skylab Was America's First And Best Home In Space

Today is the 40th anniversary of the launch of America's first space station, . Skylab wasn't the first space station ever (that honor goes to the Soviet's ), but like many American cars of that same era, it was huge and comfortable in a way not seen since. Skylab really...

Nov 4, 2025

This Great Chris Hadfield At Home Parody Reminds Us Why We Love Space

What makes Chris Hadfield's space videos so great is how mundane they are. He does the same kind of things you do right in your kitchen, as you can see in this fantastic "Hadfield at Home" parody. Seeing "Chris Hadfield" wring out a towel on Earth just reminds you how...

Nov 4, 2025

A Simple Fairing Test For A Space Rocket Is Eerily Gorgeous

SpaceX, the space vehicle company founded by Elon Musk, aka the CEO of Tesla, is constantly testing components for its space rockets. The piece undergoing testing here looks small, but it's actually big enough to fit a school bus inside, and yet somehow its still beautiful. The fairing itself is...

Nov 4, 2025

Russia's Spaceship For Animals Is The Original Manned Spacecraft

This past weekend, the spherical re-entry capsule from the . Inside was a menagerie of mice, lizards, and fish. And while the fact that this was the longest animal-only mission ever, what's really incredible is that their spaceship is a direct descendent of the first ever manned spacecraft. The the...

Nov 4, 2025

Justin Bieber To Be Fired Into Space Care Of Zany British Billionaire

Great news today on the space exploration front as it was announced that noted / enthusiast and "musician" Justin Bieber will be getting a ride to the stars thanks to Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic commercial spaceflights. The UK's Guardian has taken a break from their busy schedule of to that...

Nov 4, 2025

Chinese Taikonauts Head For China's First Space Station Today

China launched their first space station , and today they launched their first three-person crew to give it a try. This mission will be China's longest, at 15 days, and will include China's . Sounds great, even if what they're visiting isn't really a space station. I say it's not...

Nov 4, 2025

Russia Lied About How The First Man In Space Died

On March 27, 1968, the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, died. He was in a MiG-15 on a routine training flight with his instructor when his plane crashed. The official explanation has been that he had to avoid a "foreign" object, but new information from Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov tells...

Nov 4, 2025

Check Out These Car Parts That Look Like Spaceships

I'm planning on installing a new engine in my Beetle this weekend, so I've been looking at lots of engine parts and pictures of engines lately. And maybe something snapped after too many hours of staring at carburetors while Star Trek:TNG droned on in the background. Whatever it was, it...

Nov 4, 2025

Watch A Russian Rocket Crash And Explode Seconds After Taking Off

We now have decades of experience launching rockets, but it's still a tricky science to get one into space. A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle suffered a catastrophic failure this weekend seconds after takeoff and slammed into the ground, causing a huge explosion. And it could have been much worse. The...

Nov 4, 2025

The Private Next-Gen Space Shuttle Is Another Step Closer To Launch

It might look like a rejected space shuttle concept of the late '50s, but it's Sierra Nevada Corporation's . Here it is successfully rolling through two tow tests (the Ford F-450 should not be confused with an ). Flight tests are expected this summer, but the Dream Chaser has a...

Nov 4, 2025