Rocket
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MARS ONE: Mars-Bound Candidate Walks Away – Pulls Back the Curtain Revealing a Mess or is it?
Since the first announcement of the Mars One program, people have either picked up the story and hailed it with headlines trumpeting our colonization of the red planet or they’ve been standing there with confused looks slapped on their...
[video] Falcon Rocket Goes Boom in Epic Explosion
For those that haven’t seen it or listened to the last episode of WeirdThings where we discuss what happened. Here’s the video of the Falcon rocket going all Hollywood explosion-ish during its attempted soft landing on the autonmous barge...
Jump! Jump! Grasshopper Rocket Stretches Its Legs in Latest Test
SpaceX keeps coaxing their Grasshopper rockets into longer jumps as they continue to develop their reusable rocket program. In the latest test, shown in this video, SpaceX’s Grasshopper rocket takes another leap into the history books by...
Interactive Look Inside Space X’s Dragon Capsule!
If you’ve been following WeirdThings for any length of time now, you know that every time space exploration is mentioned we grab our big, pointy-fingered, foam hand and start fist-pumping toward the heavens. Most of us are never going to...
This Man Wants To Commercialize Rocket Travel, From London To Sydney In 2 Hours
Get door to door from London to Sydney in under three hours, one hour 45 minutes of flight time to be exact, and you get to call yourself an astronaut when you land. That is the dream of Michiel Mol. The 42-year-old Dutchman who co-owns...