Rockets
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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...
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...
Boeing Tests Spacecraft that Could One Day Take You to an Orbiting Hotel
Boeing tested it’s CST-100 capsule by dropping it from 11,000 feet in the air from a helicopter into the desert. According to reports, the test seemed to go fine, but what’s interesting is who footed part of the bill for the testing:...
Paul Allen, Burt Rutan Team to Launch Rockets from Gigantic 1.2 Million Lb. Plane
UPDATE: Two key points missed in the initial post. First, this will indeed the largest plane ever built. Second, the rockets launched into orbit will be built by Weird Things darlings SpaceX. Paul Allen and Burt Rutan have teamed up once...