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BOCA CHICA, Texas—Mary McConnaughey was watching from her car when the rocket exploded on the beach. The steel-crunching burst sent the top of the spacecraft flying, and a cloud of vapor billowed into the sky and drifted toward the water.McConnaughey and her husband had planned to drive into town that…

Dracarys — “Even though it sounds mundane, there is a load of paper that has to be verified.” Eric Berger - Feb 11, 2020 2:15 pm UTC Enlarge / NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken familiarize themselves with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.NASANASA and SpaceX are closing in on the first…

Working date for SpaceX's Demo-2 launch is May 7. Dragon is in good shape.Launch date is fluid and mission may move into late April, or push later into May depending on a number of variables not hardware related. No final decision yet on duration.— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) February 10, 2020It's…

SpaceX is getting very close to its goal of flying actual astronauts aboard its Crew Dragon spacecraft. After a successful in-flight abort (IFA) test in January, it had basically crossed off all the major milestones needed before flying people, first on a demonstration mission referred to as “Demo-2” by SpaceX…

OneWeb, the heavily-funded startup thats setting out to create a constellation of micro satellites to deliver broadband from space, is finally gearing up for the first in a series of regular monthly launches throughout 2020 and beyond. The London-based compa…

SpaceX is about to do the unthinkable. On Saturday morning, the company plans to launch a doomed Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a brand-new spaceship for NASA, called Crew Dragon, perched on top. The 230-foot-tall vehicle is expected to …

According to a piece in The Telegraph, the UK's Ministry of Defence has announced plans to make available online over 50 years of UFO sightings reported to the RAF. The RAF discontinued its UFO reporting program in 2009 after claiming that nothing reported during the five decades of the program…

Last week, charter fishing boat captain David Stokes was fishing off the Daytona Beach coast when he reeled in a capsule door and two parachutes that were part of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. On January 19, SpaceX conducted a successful in-flight abort test of their Crew Dragon that involved…

Getting a satellite to space used to be incredibly expensive. Thanks to SpaceX's new Smallsat Rideshare Program, companies and researchers can get their payload into orbit for a far smaller fee. The program supports payloads up to 1,000 lbs. in its 15" ports and 1,830 lbs. in its 24" ports,…

The 21st-century space race cranked up a gear this week, with satellite launches, IPOs, investments, and moon landings all on the global agenda. Yesterday, London-based OneWeb kicked off the first in a series of regular microsatellite launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The company actually launched its initial six…