Watch blast demolish what once was tallest man-made structure in north Alabama

According to Marshall officials, the 360-foot tower topped by a 64-foot derrick was once the tallest human-made structure in ...
WLRN

Goddard Space Flight Center staff says library's closure degrades NASA's mission

NASA's plans for the new year include sending a spacecraft near the moon. Some of the work for missions like that takes place at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and that is where the ...
USA Today

Engineer becomes first person who uses a wheelchair to travel to space

A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the boundary of outer space. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, a German aerospace ...
The New York Times

In a First, a Wheelchair User Joins a Short Flight to Space

A paraplegic engineer was part of a crew that made a suborbital journey on a spacecraft operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. By Adeel Hassan A paraplegic engineer from Germany became ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Blue Origin Completes First Space Flight With Wheelchair User

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed a suborbital joyride Saturday with a six-person crew, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers. The flight took off at ...
Gizmodo

Your Next Flight Might Be Directed From Space

If you’re traveling during the holiday season, then you’ll likely be anticipating the dreaded packed airports and flight delays. There may soon be a reason to rejoice, however, as a space-based system ...
nerdist

STRANGER THINGS Comes to MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR

Sponsorship and product tie-ins are a fact of movies and TV in the 21st century. What’s the point in having an intellectual property if you can’t shoehorn it into another thing that’s popular? That’s ...
SpaceNews

NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter

WASHINGTON — NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a key communications relay. In a statement late Dec. 9 ...
SpaceNews

Blue Origin targets four-flight campaign for New Glenn’s path to Space Force certification

Blue Origin’s New Glenn lifts off on the NG-2 mission Nov. 13. Credit: Blue Origin ORLANDO, Fla. — Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket will have to complete four successful orbital flights as its pathway ...
GameSpot

Microsoft Initially Rejected Idea To Bring Flight Simulator To PS5, Dev Says

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Microsoft originally rejected a pitch to bring Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 to PlayStation consoles, but the company eventually agreed, and this ...
The Hill

Russia is out of the human spaceflight business — for now

A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Site 31 pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher ...
Space.com

Blue Origin's next space tourism flight will break new ground for people with disabilities

The suborbital launch with Michi Benthaus "will be an important step for opening up space travel to all who have orbital dreams." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...