Mini space shuttle will fly cargo to Space Station NASA awarded contracts to three companies for unmanned commercial cargo delivery missions to the space station through 2024: “…Sierra Nevada, the newcomer to the CRS program, will provide two versions of its Dream Chaser lifting body
Resources on Asteroids can be worth billions: “There’s money in space mining!” Usually that sort of bluster translates to money thrown AT space- as in tens of billions for Apollo, Shuttle, Space Station, etc. Sure we’ve discovered an awful lot of important stuff, and
Landing Booster Rockets Reduces the Cost of Space Travel : In late November Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched and landed its “New Shepard” Spacecraft. The rocket traveled just over 100km (the edge of space) before making a powered landing exactly where intended. The only other
