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SpaceX Wins Contract to Design NASA Moon Lander
Depending on how good your memory is, or your interest in space travel, I suppose, you may recall that in May 2020, NASA officially awarded contracts to both SpaceX and Amazon’s ‘Blue Origin’ to design the lunar lander that, as the name might have suggested, would take humans back to…
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8 Random People Wanted For a Trip to the Moon! – Apply Now!
If Elon Musk has his way, and we suspect he will, then he fully intends to make travelling to the stars (or at least the Moon) a fairly standard procedure within the next 10 years. It does ultimately feel like if anything is going to get us there (and by…
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NASA Awards Moon Lander Contracts – We’re Going Back!
It’s been a very long time now since we last stepped foot on the moon. In fact, it’s been nearly 50 years! In a report via TechSpot, however, it seems that NASA is ready to kick things into a whole new gear! How? Well, the official contracts have been handed…
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Reveals Blue Moon Lunar Lander
Jeff Bezos Reveals Lunar Lander It might have taken around 60 years, but we finally have something of a space race again as both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos battle with their respective companies to be the first to get commercially out of this world. While we have seen more…
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NASA Wants To Return To The Moon Before The End Of 2019
NASA Plans To Return To The Moon With all of the private space projects currently underway it is easy to forget that NASA does still exist. Admittedly, the company has been very much in the backseat of rocketry for the last 15 years. Well, specifically after the Shuttle Columbia broke…
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Elon Musk Thinks A Ticket To Mars Will Cost Around $500,000
SpaceX Trip To Mars Commercial flights to space are looking likely to form part of practical reality for consumers within the next 5 years. Well, depending on how much money you have at least. Incidentally, at the risk of avoiding a Back To The Future II or Blade Runner prediction…
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NASA Model Suggests That The Moon Was Once Part Of Earth
NASA Research Suggests The Moon Came From Earth One of the biggest points of speculation surrounding the Moon is exactly how it came to be there. Moons are, of course, not uncommon and we’re certainly more than a little familiar with the one orbiting our planet. In a report via…
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SpaceX Announce 10% Of Staff To Be Made Redundant
SpaceX Axe 10% Of Workforce Over the last year, the SpaceX project has provided some of the most exciting news in the technology world. The company, headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has been making some exciting developments in their rocket technology that makes commercial space travel seem a much…
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NASA Reveal 9 Companies Contacted For Moon Landing Bids
NASA Reveal 9 Companies Contacted For Moon Landing Bids If you’ve been paying attention to the NASA news, you’ll have noticed that the last week has been pretty busy for the company. We saw, earlier this week, their InSight probe land on the surface of Mars and just yesterday, reports…
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NASA – US Moon Trip ‘Sooner Than You Might Think’
NASA -US Moon Trip ‘Sooner Than You Might Think’ It’s amazing to think that it has been over 45 years now since we last walked on the moon. Yes, despite visiting it very short successive trips, we have yet to return. The conspiracy theorists would, of course, argue that we…
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NASA Use AI To Create Interplanetary Lander
NASA Use AI To Create Interplanetary Lander Artificial Intelligence will certainly play a major role in our future. Why? Well because it’s been proven on several occasions that it has the ability to maybe overcome some of the mental blocks we have to be truly innovative. For example, we regularly…
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SpaceX Moon Passenger Revealed As Japanese Billionaire
SpaceX Moon Passenger Revealed As Japanese Billionaire It’s no secret that the SpaceX project, backed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has plans to launch commercial flights into space. It is, actually, quite remarkable as they are certainly not the only company looking to do this, but despite being one of…
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SpaceX Reveal A Private Passenger Is Signed Up For Moon Trip
SpaceX Reveal A Private Passenger Is Signed Up For Moon Trip SpaceX has been testing rockets for a little while now. The regularity of launches are impressively high and so far the success rate has also been remarkably good. With this in mind though, to date, the best the rockets…
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Japan Conduct First Test For Space Elevator Technology
Japan Conduct First Test For Space Elevator Technology For many years there have been discussions surrounding the potential for the development of ‘space elevator’ technology. This would essentially put an orbiting ‘station’ in the air and from it, a direct cable (or line) would go to the earth’s surface. If…
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Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight!
Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight! Tonight will mark one of the more spectacular occasions in terms of astronomy. In the night’s sky, we will be treated to the longest ‘blood moon‘ we have seen so far in the 21st century. That is, of course, assuming you have…
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