World's first space hotel is set to launch in 2027. It is a milestone for space tourism, which has long been imagined. A California-based company, Above: Space Development Corporation, is going to ...

Extended stays in space like that of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the 'stranded' astronauts at the International Space Station for nine months, are very valuable for devising systems to protect ...

Elon Musk promised to build a spaceship that would put people and cargo into Earth orbit at one-hundredth of the current cost ...

The suspicion is that Musk assumed throwing money and talent at the project could overcome the constraints of the ‘rocket ...

The narrative of 3I/Atlas began on July 1, 2025, when the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (Atlas) detected a faint moving light. This moving object was later confirmed to be the ...

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The history of the X series of aircraft, with emphasis on the Bell X-1 and on the North American X-15 spaceplanes, and on Chuck Yeager's role in breaking the sound barrier. The development of the ...

RUSSIA’S Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky (left) never built a rocket, but by 1898 he had worked out the basic principles of rocket dynamics. America’s Robert Hutchings Goddard (right) launched the ...