When Elon Musk, PayPal and SpaceX founder, unveiled the Dragon V2 on May 29, my heart jumped into my throat.

This past Friday, September 4th, Boeing opened a warehouse in Florida that will assemble the Starliner – Boeing’s new spacecraft which will shuttle people to … Read more…
OK, I don’t care what you’re doing September 27th you need to take just a moment of your life to watch the night sky and … Read more…
There are days when life and work and family get so crazy that the idea of being in an isolation chamber sounds downright inviting. However, … Read more…
NASA announced today that it is developing a vegetable garden designed for longer space missions and give space stations the ability to grow salad foods in space. … Read more…
Remember back in the days when we switched our TV’s from VHF to UHF? The UHF channels always seemed to be just a little bit … Read more…
NASA wants to explore Jupiter and other gaseous planets with a new robot, NASA Windbots, that will fly in the atmosphere, fueled by turbulence. Space … Read more…
On January 19th, 2006, approximately 9 years, 5 months, and 24 days ago, a little spacecraft called New Horizons launched off of Pad 41 at … Read more…
Yesterday a new image of Pluto arrived from the New Horizons space probe, which shows a picture of what looks to be a whale and a … Read more…
If you read Techaeris frequently, you may remember a story we published a few days ago about Microsoft sending HoloLens to the ISS on the … Read more…
In less than a month, NASA will be sending an international team of astronauts and scientists to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The project … Read more…
Microsoft’s HoloLens is so futuristic that its implications haven’t quite sunk in for the majority of us. NASA, however, is eager to start taking advantage … Read more…
Space travel and exploration has gained a lot of traction in the past few years after what looked like a somewhat daunting future for NASA. … Read more…
The mankind-on-Mars conversation has been going on for some time, but only recently has it begun to be scientifically feasible. Technological accelerations are taking NASA, and … Read more…
Forget about quadcopters, NASA has just one-upped the fledgling drone enthusiast community big time. NASA’s Greased Lightning is a ten engine electric plane with vertical … Read more…
Scientists have had a pretty good handle on the laws of physics for quite some time. Bodies in motion and whatnot have been bound by these … Read more…
Weather permitting, SpaceX will send just over two tons of supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) this afternoon. The launch will be their sixth … Read more…
If there are two things that are all the rage right now, it’s Mars and drones. Okay, maybe not all the rage, but a day … Read more…
The International Space Station (ISS) is a bastion for scientific discovery. Astronauts aboard the ISS generally perform upwards of 200 experiments in their six month … Read more…
I’m a sucker for space science and physics, although I’m not terribly good at either one which is probably why I write about them rather … Read more…
Looks like the Pathways Interns at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre might have too much time on their hands. They’ve taken Meghan Trainor’s popular and catchy “All … Read more…
It’s been a big week in space, that’s for sure! We saw the first test launch of the Orion spacecraft last Friday, and only a … Read more…
After being delayed yesterday due to a faulty valve, NASA’s Orion test launch went off without a hitch this morning. The Orion spacecraft successfully launched … Read more…
I think it’s safe to assume that at one point or another we’ve all looked up to the sky and dreamt of what’s out there. Science … Read more…
Have you always wanted to make your mark on another planet but don’t feel that you could complete the grueling physical tests required to become … Read more…
NASA announced earlier today that they have picked two American companies to transport U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station. Boeing and SpaceX will be … Read more…
It was 45 years ago today, on July 20, 1969, that man first landed on the Moon. Launched on June 16 from NASA’s Kennedy Space … Read more…
In late 2013, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) tentatively announced that space probe Voyager 1 had entered … Read more…
When Elon Musk, PayPal and SpaceX founder, unveiled the Dragon V2 on May 29, my heart jumped into my throat.