Space

SPACEPORT AMERICA, NM – Richard Branson ragte mehr als 80 Kilometer in den heißen, gleißend hellen Himmel über New Mexico auf und erfüllte sich endlich einen Traum, dessen Verwirklichung Jahrzehnte dauerte: Er darf sich jetzt Astronaut…

Here’s what you need to know:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTpWYWIfP7YRichard Branson finally got his trip to space on Sunday.It has been a very long wait for Mr. Branson, the irreverent, 70-year-old British billionaire who leads a galaxy…

Still, the forces felt by the passengers on the way down will be greater than on the way up, reaching six times the force of gravity.Once the plane is back in the atmosphere, the tail booms rotate back down, and the plane will glide to a…

Richard Branson, the British billionaire who founded a galaxy of Virgin companies, announced Thursday evening that he would be on the next test flight of the Virgin Galactic spaceplane.This flight is scheduled to take off from Spaceport…

Another Chinese robotic mission landed on the moon in December, collecting lunar rocks from the surface and bringing them back to Earth weeks later. This made China only the third nation after the USA and the Soviet Union to complete such…

Luna 27 and Chang'e-6, for example, are said to drill into the surface and bring samples back to Earth - an accomplishment that China did three times a year with Chang'e-5 last December and the Soviet Union with Luna landers three times a…

WASHINGTON - The Biden government announced Friday that it would begin the formal sales process of leases to develop offshore wind farms in shallow waters between Long Island and New Jersey in an effort to convert the nation to renewable…

Jeff Bezos said Monday that he would be on board when his rocket company Blue Origin makes its first manned spaceflight next month. He said his brother Mark Bezos would accompany him on the flight.Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by…

The company test fires a 3D-printed Aeon rocket engine in March 2021.Relativity spaceRelativity Space is pushing the boundaries of 3D printing to build rockets, but CEO Tim Ellis sees the company's impact beyond the space industry."We're…

"We can finally open our doors to private individuals and enable others to experience the magic of living and working in space," said Dana Weigel, assistant manager of the space station at NASA. "The dream really is to give everyone access…