06 June 2024
NASA troubleshoots helium leaks after Starliner launch
... the first time since the Mercury missions of the early 1960s that a crew had been launched on an Atlas family rocket. It was a big and long-delayed moment for both NASA and Boeing and is viewed...
23 June 2024
NASA postpones Starliner's crew return amid thruster concerns
... schedule, the Starliner crewed launch was a month later than planned due to minor problems with its Atlas 5 rocket, trouble with a countdown computer and because of an initial helium leak in the system used to pressurize the...
05 September 2025
Asgardia to host inaugural ‘Galactic Prime Directive Conference’
... is the work of Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who is currently investigating the possibility that objects such as “3I/Atlas” might have technological – and potentially extraterrestrial – origins. His research marks a timely backdrop to discussions...
29 March 2018
Rocket Owners’ Workshop Manual
... and traces the related developments of early American rockets, such as the Redstone and Jupiter, to the Thor, Atlas, Titan and Delta vehicles. A couple of Russian vehicles, the Soyuz and the Proton, are thrown in for...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
.... The Mars Helicopter will launch as a technology demonstrator with the Mars 2020 rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in July 2020 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. It is expected to reach...
01 August 2019
Apollo’s Muse; the Moon in the age of photography
... obvious bootprint on the Moon to the much less obvious ‘rocket dress’, an A-line creation embellished with an image of an Atlas launch. In between are early sketches of the Moon made through telescopes, film stills and science-fictional...
