Space exploration has been a part of our culture since 1957. At its conception, it was for trained astronauts and only a dream for the untrained. In 2004, Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic, a company that provides the opportunity for anyone to experience the...
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has famously described it as the “holy grail” of rocketry. He is, of course, referring to the reusability of spacecraft, including the booster rocket that is responsible for carrying passengers and payloads to space. As the overwhelming...
In the aftermath of the space shuttle program coming to an end without a viable replacement launch platform in place, NASA and its space program were in a bind. But following a period of uncertainty, the space industry has been revitalized thanks largely to the...
On July 21, 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis landed back on earth after a mission to the International Space Station (ISS), bringing the venerable NASA program to an end after 30 years. But years prior, the space agency set into motion a pivotal project in pursuit of the...
Despite having successfully accomplished multiple crewed suborbital flights with its reusable New Shepard rocket, Blue Origin launches occur with seemingly less fanfare than those of its peers in the newly privatized space industry, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. Much of...
