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  Blue Origin launches  New Shepard test flight William Harwood     14 hrs ago Parenting Blogger Emily Mitchell's Cause of Death Revealed In an expletive-filled rant, Trump told an aide to never mention Nixon's name… Blue Origin launches New Shepard test flight Blue Origin launched its 14th sub-orbital flight of a New Shepard spacecraft Thursday, using its reusable rocket to boost an unpiloted crew capsule out of the discernible atmosphere for a brief sojourn in weightlessness. The mission was to test accommodations, cockpit displays and other systems for upcoming passenger flights. © Blue Origin webcast  011421-land1.jpg The hydrogen-fueled rocket's BE-3 engine ignited with a burst of flame at 12:17 p.m. EST, quickly pushing the stubby vehicle away from Launch Site One at Blue Origin's west Texas flight test facility. The company is owned by Amazon founder  Jeff Bezos . © Provided by CBS News  A dramatic drone shot of a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket ...

  SpaceX to Ramp Up Testing for Mars Rocket in 2021 By  Elijah Chiland Monday, January 4, 2021   Share   SpaceX’s Starship launch on Dec. 19 ended in a fiery explosion. Coming off a record-breaking year of launches and high-profile missions, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is already gearing up for a busy 2021. The Hawthorne-based company averaged a launch every two weeks in 2020 and appears ready to maintain that pace in the new year. SpaceX is reportedly aiming to launch a Turkish satellite from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station later this week, and the company is on track to undertake another two launches before the end of January. Chief Executive Elon Musk has also said the company will ramp up testing of its massive Starship rocket, which it plans to eventually use for lunar and interplanetary missions. In a tweet on Dec. 24, Musk indicated that the company would “soon” begin assembling prototypes of the rocket on both launch pads at a test site operat...

SpaceX flies Starship rocket; it crash lands on launch pad By Paul Brinkmann  ( 0 ) SpaceX's Starship lifts off on a test flight from Texas on Wednesday afternoon. Photo courtesy of SpaceX Dec. 9 (UPI) --   SpaceX  sent its new-generation Starship rocket into the Texas sky just before sunset Wednesday and and saw it crash-land in a massive fireball on its launch pad. The test flight was the first high-altitude attempt for the vehicle, which lifted off at 5:45 pm. EST from the company's launch and development site in Boca Chica, about 180 miles south of Corpus Christi. ADVERTISEMENT Elon Musk 's company offered no commentary or reaction to the flight, which included the possible loss of one of three Raptor engines. But the rocket appeared to reach the intended altitude -- nearly 8 miles high. That model rocket, eyed as a transport vehicle to the moon and possibly Mars, also performed a flip maneuver mid-flight that the space company had planned. RELATED   SpaceX abort...

  SpaceX plans uncrewed Mars mission within two years Shane McGlaun  -  Dec 2, 2020, 5:02am CST 0 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave an interview this week, where he talked about several different topics. One of the big topics he talked about was his company’s ambition for putting humans back on Mars. Musk mentioned that the company’s big shiny spacecraft known as Starship would have a high-altitude test later this week. During the interview, he also mentioned that he expects  humans to land  on Mars in around six years, noting that he was “fairly confident” in that timeframe. Earth and Mars are most synchronized in orbit every 26 months. He said that SpaceX would do an uncrewed launch and landing on Mars at the next synchronization opportunity in about two years if all goes well. Humans could first land on Mars in the next synchronization four years after the uncrewed landing. Musk also noted that his own trip into orbit would happen in 2 to 3 years. One of his key goal...

  Meet CJ Sturckow: One of the Virgin Galactic pilots for the first spaceflight from New Mexico Posted on  November 23, 2020 ; Virgin Galactic Press Release         Virgin Galactic is ready to complete pre-flight preparation for its next spaceflight once the company sets its new flight test window. Virgin  temporarily minimized its footprint  in New Mexico following the new two-week health order put in place. This flight will represent a number of firsts: it will be Virgin Galactic’s first spaceflight from its commercial headquarters at Spaceport America; it’s the first-time humans will fly into space from the state of New Mexico; and Virgin’s left-seat pilot for the flight, CJ Sturckow, will become the first astronaut to have flown into space from three different U.S states. Pictured is Virgin Galactic pilot CJ Sturckow. Virgin Galactic Photo Advertisement Sturckow was in the cockpit during Virgin Galactic’s first flight to space in December 2018...